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(c. 1842 - 1863)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Son of planter Anderson William Adcock, in 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his parents, 7 siblings, and 8 slaves on the family plantation near Montgomery, AL. He enlisted at Yorktown, VA on 6 April 1862 and he mustered as a Private in Company A, 13th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was with his company in Maryland and was in action with them on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and at Sharpsburg on 17 September.
The rest of the War
He was killed in action at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863.
References & notes
His service from the Alabama database1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
His brothers William A (1836-?), John Drury (1835-1895), James G (c.1838-1862, Sharpsburg), and Andrew J (1842-1881) were also in Company C.
Birth
c. 1842 in AL
Death
07/03/1863; Gettysburg, PA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
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 32301]
2 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 32302]