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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Samuel A. Henagan

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 21 year old school teacher living on the W.C. Maxwell farm at Monticello in Lawrence County, MS. He mustered as Private, Company B, 16th Mississippi Infantry, on 7 August 1861 in Lynchburg, VA.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Confederate Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His death also seen in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.

Birth

c. 1839 in MS

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 29593]

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