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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Henry Nathan Childs

(c. 1844 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 16 year old student living on his parent's farm at Sandy Ridge in Henry County, GA. He enlisted as a Private in Company C, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 in Griffin, GA.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was furloughed home from 18 October to 19 December 1862. He was captured near Gettysburg, PA on 5 July 1863, paroled at Fort Mc Henry in Baltimore, and sent on to Fort Delaware on 9 July. He was transferred to Point Lookout, MD on 22 October 1863 and held there to 18 February 1865, when he was sent to James River, VA and exchanged on 20 or 21 February 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3 and Henderson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

His brother William was also in Company C and was also wounded at Sharpsburg.

Birth

c. 1844; Henry County, GA

Death

Date not known; Henry County, 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 28414]

2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28415]

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