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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Absalom Kuykendall

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 23 year old farmer in Guntersville, he enlisted there as Private, Company E, 48th Alabama Infantry on 31 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died on 17 October 1862, place not given, but possibly at home in Marshall County.

References & notes

His service from the State of Alabama,1 as Abner Ken Kynsdale. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave, as Absolum Kuykendall.

Birth

c. 1838; Cherokee County, GA

Death

10/21/1862; Marshall County, AL; burial in Myrtletree Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Marshall County, AL

Notes

1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /civilwar/soldier.cfm?id=113633 [AotW citation 25787]

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