Henry D. Collins

A newly married 19 year old farmer, he enlisted at Shelby Springs in Shelby County on 19 March 1862, and he mustered as a Private in Company D, 44th Alabama Infantry.

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

He was captured at Raccoon Mountain near Chattanooga, TN on 28 October 1863. He was at Nashville by 3 November, briefly at Louisville, KY on the 4th, then sent to Camp Morton near Indianapolis, IN. He was transferred to Fort Delaware on 19 March 1864, where he took an oath of allegiance and was released on 14 June 1865.

In 1870 he was a farm worker at Summerfield in Dallas County, AL, but by 1880 and to at least 1920 he farmed his own place in Bowie County, TX.

His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has his middle name as Dock, and the US Census of 1870-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Jane Martin (1845-1897) in February 1862 and they had 6 children. He married again, Martha Susan Elledge (1863-1938) in January 1905.

12/25/1840 in GA

01/24/1929; Texarkana, TX; burial in Wooten Springs Cemetery, Texarkana, TX