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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Evan Coleman Ballard

(1840 - 1913)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farm worker living with his parents and 9 siblings on their farm at Red Level in Covington County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was captured near Fredericksburg, VA on 3 May 1863 and sent to City Point, VA for exchange on 10 May. He was promoted to 2nd Sergeant and wounded at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer at Rutledge in Crenshaw County, AL.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of an excellent post-war photograph.

Birth

03/09/1840; Covington County, AL

Death

05/09/1913; Black Rock, AL; burial in Black Rock Cemetery, Black Rock, AL

Notes

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 32330]

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 32331]

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