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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Francis Marion Connaway

(c. 1839 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A married 23 year old farmer from Traveler's Rest, AL, he enlisted in Coosa County, AL on 22 August 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September but was ill and not with them at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was at Gettysburg, PA on 1-3 July 1863, but was left behind on the return march, sick, in a hospital in Hagerstown, MD, and supposed to have died there about 8 July.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as F M Connoway, Conoway, etc, and the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850.

His brother Andrew was also in Company H.

Birth

c. 1839; Newton County, GA

Death

07/08/1863; Hagerstown, MD

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 32419]

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 32420]

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