Hiram H. Britt

In 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer on the Richard W Ellis place at Reeltown in Tallapoosa County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was captured on 15 September 1862 at Boonsboro, MD near the previous day's battlefield at Turner's Gap on South Mountain.

He was held at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was furloughed home for 30 days on 27 October and was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was wounded at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July and captured at Falling Waters, VA on 14 July 1863. He was a prisoner in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC to 8 August, then at Point Lookout, MD until exchanged on 3 March 1864. He returned to duty after another 30 day furlough, and was surrendered and paroled with his company at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870 he was a farm worker back at Reeltown, AL.

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 & 1870.

He married Annie Sanford (1850-) in June 1865 and they had 3 children.

c. 1841 in AL

06/08/1875; Elmore County, AL