Henry Scott McCallum

Son of Old School Presbyterian clergyman Angus McCallum, in 1860 he was a 23 year old County Assessor living with his parents and 7 younger siblings at Union Church in Jefferson County, MS. He enlisted on 11 March 1861 at Union Church, MS and mustered as a Private in Company H, 12th Mississippi Infantry on 5 May 1861 in Corinth, MS. He was appointed First Sergeant by August 1861 and commissioned First Lieutenant on 28 April 1862. He was wounded near Richmond, VA in late June 1862.

He was wounded in the head in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 24 September, was absent on wounded furlough to June 1863, and afterward listed as absent without leave into October 1863. He resigned his commission on 2 November 1863 due to "loss of use of his right foot."

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as Henry S. McCallam. His wound at Sharpsburg on 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. His picture from a photograph in uniform reproduced (poorly) in Louis Farrell's McCallums; Daniel McCallum, Isabel Sellars, Their Antecedents, Descendants and Collateral Relatives (1946).

He married Annette Eudora Galtney (1839-1919) in October 1862 and they had a daughter Adda (1863-1938).

11/11/1836; Robeson County, NC

05/02/1868; Union Church, MS; burial in Union Church Cemetery, Union Church, MS