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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Jacob H. Deas

(c. 1846 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 15 year old farmer from Dadeville, AL, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was captured on 15 September 1862 at Boonsboro, MD near the battlefield of the evening before at Turner's Gap on South Mountain, listed as a deserter there on his company's rolls.

The rest of the War

He was a prisoner at Fort Delaware and set for transfer for exchange through Aikens' Landing, VA in October 1862, but never returned to duty. He may have taken an oath of allegiance to the United States and remained in the north.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2

Birth

c. 1846 in GA

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 32449]

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 32450]

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