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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Francis Marion Adams

"Frank"

(c. 1836 - 1864)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 24 year old farmer in Smith County, MS. He enlisted on 19 April 1861 in Raleigh, MS, and mustered as a Private in Company H, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 1 June 1861 in Corinth.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the hand in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was home on furlough in February 1863. He was mortally wounded on the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA on 21 August 1864 and died at Howard's Grove Hospital in Richmond, VA on 25 August 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as T.M. Adams. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Angeline Floyd (later Boykin, 1844-1912) in about 1859 and they had 2 children.

Birth

c. 1836 in SC

Death

08/25/1864; Richmond, VA; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, 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 29688]