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H.E. Young
(1831 - 1918)
Home State: South Carolina
Education: South Carolina College
Command Billet: Staff Officer
Branch of Service: Staff
Unit: Jones' Division
Before Sharpsburg
He was a lawyer in Charleston, SC before the war. He was appointed Captain and Assistant Adjutant General (AAG) to General Drayton on 14 October 1861, and was relieved at his own request and joined General D.R. Jones' staff as a volunteer aide de camp (ADC) at Second Manassas.
On the Campaign
He was a volunteer ADC to General Jones on the Maryland Campaign.
The rest of the War
He was briefly on General R.H. Anderson's staff in November, then volunteer ADC to General Longstreet into December 1862. He was assigned to General R.E. Lee as Captain and Assistant Adjutant General on 23 February 1863 and was promoted to Major and AAG, later serving as Lee's Judge Advocate General up to the surrender at Appomattox Court House on 9 April 1865.
References & notes
Birth
08/09/1831; Grahamville, SC
Death
04/09/1918; Charleston, SC; burial in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, SC
1 Krick, Robert E.L., Staff Officers in Gray; A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003, pg. 311 [AotW citation 29379]
2 Miller, Francis Trevelyan, editor in chief, Photographic History of the Civil War, 10 vols., New York: The Review of Reviews Co., 1911-12, Vol. 10, pg. 71 [AotW citation 29380]