Seborn Henderson Dunken

An unmarried 22 year old farmer from Arbacoochee in Randolph County, AL (or Newnan, GA), he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to 3rd Corporal on 1 May 1863 was wounded by a gunshot at Chancellorsville, VA on 2 days later. He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and was admitted to the Satterlee US Army hospital in Philadelphia on 12 July. He was sent to a hospital in Chester, PA on 13 July and from there to City Point, VA for exchange on 17 September 1863. He was back with his unit in time to be captured again, in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864. He was held at Point Lookout, MD to 30 July, then sent to Elmira, NY. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States there and was released on 21 June 1865.

By 1870 he was a farmer in Cleburne County, AL but by 1880 he was farming in Grayson County, TX.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as Duncan, and the Archives,2 as Seaborn H Dunkan. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870 & 1880.

He married Sarah E. Luther (1844-1882) in December 1865 and they had 9 children.

07/02/1840; Athens, GA

10/265/1885; Grayson, TX