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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Samuel A. DuPriest

(1839 - 1903)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 22 year old farmer from Coosa County, AL, he enlisted there on 2 July 1861 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 and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and a prisoner at Fort Delaware until 14 June 1865, when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

After the War

By 1880 he was a farmer in Faulkner County, AR and in 1900 in Grant County, AR.

References & notes

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 1880. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

03/1839; Morgan County, GA

Death

12/05/1903; Grant County, AR

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 32469]

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 32470]

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