Richard W. Griffith

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farmer at Raleigh in Smith County, MS. He mustered as a Private in Company H of the 16th Mississippi Infantry on 10 July 1861 in Corinth. He was often sick in hospitals in late 1861 and early 1862.

He was initially listed as missing but later as killed in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

His widow Eliza (Elizabeth) filed for his final pay of $133.73 in January 1863, which was paid to Smith County Sheriff J.D.W. Duckworth, his administrator, in April 1863.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. A casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862 has him missing at Sharpsburg, as R.F. Griffith. Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

c. 1839

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD