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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Alfred F. Slay

(1842 - 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an 18 year old on his parents prosperous farm in Copiah County, MS. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company C, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 26 May 1861 in Corinth, MS.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

His father Alfred filed for his final pay of $101.06 in February 1863; it was paid out in August 1863.

References & notes

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

His brother William was wounded at Sharpsburg.

Birth

04/21/1842; Hinds County, 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 29615]

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