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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Thomas W. Avery

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 17 year old on his parent's farm at Magdalena in Meriwether County, GA. He enlisted as a Private in Company B, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 in Griffin, GA.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His father William J Avery filed for his final pay of $122.23 in February 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as Thomas Avry. He's not found in Henderson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1842; Meriwether County, GA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 28398]

2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28399]

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