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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Eugene J. Bentley

(c. 1846 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 16, an unmarried farmer from Rockford, AL, he enlisted in Coosa County, AL on 1 February 1862 and mustered a Private in Company H, 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 on the Gettysburg Campaign at Greenwood, PA on 7 July 1863, in a hospital in Baltimore, then sent to Point Lookout, MD on 20 August. On 12 September he made a statement:

Is 18 years old. Has no parents. Was living in Ala. with an uncle, was going to school when he was forced in the Service. Was taken in the mountains. Had left the ranks under the pretense of being sick and had been for several weeks trying to get within our lines. Wishes to take the oath and remain north and work. Told the Provost Marshal at Gettysburg that he was ... [remainder missing].

He took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released, with no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as Eugenius J Bentley and Junius Bentley, and the Archives.2

Birth

c. 1846 in 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 32338]

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 32339]

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