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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Henry Thomas Wallace

(1829 - 1911)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 53rd Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 34 year old farmer at Conyers, GA. He enlisted in Newton County as a Private in Company B, 53rd Georgia Infantry on 1 May 1862. He transferred to Company E on 15 August.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was exchanged at Aiken's Landing on 10 November 1862 and was listed as absent in hospital at the last muster roll of February 1865.

After the War

In 1900 he was farming at Stone Mountain, DeKalb County, GA, but by 1910 had retired and was living with his son Walter on a farm at Diamond, GA.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, as H.T. Wallis, 1900, and 1910. His memorial is on Findagrave.

He married Sildia Ann Peek (1833-1898) in October 1854 in Newton County and they had 9 children.

Birth

06/16/1829; Newton County, GA

Death

03/08/1911; DeKalb County, GA; burial in Rock Chapel Historic Cemetery, Lithonia, GA

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 27372]

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