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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Augustus B. Smith

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farmer living with his parents who kept a tavern at Westville in Simpson County, MS. He enlisted on 27 April 1861 at Paulding, Jasper County, MS and mustered as a Private in Company F, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 31 May 1861 in Corinth. By December 1861 and to at least 14 April 1862, when he reenlisted, he was detailed as a drummer/musician.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his foot and captured in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 30 September and died of wounds on 29 December 1862 at the CS Army General Hospital in Staunton, VA. His mother Nancy applied for his final pay of $99.91 in March 1863.

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. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1839; Jasper County, MS

Death

12/29/1862; Staunton, VA; burial in Thornrose Cemetery, Staunton, VA

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 29672]