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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Gaines L. Bentley

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his parents and 3 siblings on the family farm at Rockford/Mt Olive, AL. He enlisted in Coosa County, AL on 2 July 1861 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 severely wounded by a piece of shell to his right leg at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863. He returned to his company in September 1863 and was surrendered and paroled with them at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

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.

Birth

c. 1843 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 32340]

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 32341]

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