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(c. 1844 - ?)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Son of blacksmith Riley Reynolds, in 1860 he was a 16 year student living with his parents and siblings at Mount Rose in Jasper County, MS. He enlisted on 24 March 1862 at Paulding, Jasper County, MS as a Private in Company F, 16th Mississippi Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the shoulder in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was back with his Company by December 1862 but was detailed as a "cow driver" with the Commissary Department from July to December 1863. He was on extended wounded furlough by July 1864, wound details not given, and was listed as absent without leave after 25 October 1864 with no later military record.
After the War
He applied for a veteran's pension in Oklahoma in 1915, when he said we was home on wounded furlough to the surrender in 1865.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound 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.
Birth
c. 1844 in AL
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 29671]