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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Samuel Taylor

(c. 1820 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a married 40 year old farm worker at Mt. Olive in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted there on 8 or 9 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was wounded at Seven Pines, VA on 31 May 1862 and afterward on 60 days furlough into August.

On the Campaign

Initially listed as wounded, he was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

He married Arena (?, c.1830-) and they had 3 children between about 1848 and 1857.

Birth

c. 1820 in GA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, 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 32425]

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 32426]

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