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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Hardy Valentine Gibson

(c. 1838 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 22 year old overseer of 21 or more slaves on Cynthia Gunn's farm at Oak Bowery in Chambers County, AL. He enlisted on 19 July 1861 in Montgomery, AL and mustered as First Sergeant of Company B of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant on 20 October 1861 and promoted to First Lieutenant on 10 June 1862.

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 killed at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1838; Stokes County, NC

Death

07/01/1863; Gettysburg, PA

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 32533]

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 32534]

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