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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

R. A. Holloway

(? - 1863)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as a Private in Company D, 13th Georgia Infantry by 7 March 1862. He was appointed Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was on wounded furlough from 26 September to 18 November 1862. He was wounded again, in the leg at Gettysburg, PA and captured there. His leg was amputated but he died of pyemia (infection) in a US Army hospital in Gettysburg on 10 July 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from Henderson.2

Birth

Date not known; Upson County, GA

Death

07/10/1863; Gettysburg, PA

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 28489]

2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28490]

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