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(c. 1840 - 1863)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a married 20 year old farmer at Rabbit Town in Calhoun County, AL. He enlisted at Fair Play, AL on 6 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 44th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the arm or chest in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in hospitals in Staunton and Richmond, VA (by 30 October) and returned to his company on 21 February 1863. He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #3 in Richmond, VA on 15 March 1863 and died there of double pneumonia on 22 March.
References & notes
His service from the State of Alabama,1 also as Lemuel Reed and Read, and from 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, as M.L. Reid. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and his widow's Confederate Pension application of 1887, online from FamilySearch. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Catherine Thompson (1838-1904) and they had 2 sons, born 1859, 1862.
Birth
c. 1840 in AL
Death
03/22/1863; Richmond, VA; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 31718]
2 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 31719]