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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Reuben C. Gill

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 20 year old farmer at Marble Valley, AL, he enlisted on 2 July 1861 in Coosa County, AL and mustered as a Private in Company H of the 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 seriously wounded by a "ball passing through his left shoulder joint necessitating resection" at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864 and disabled for further field service.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1841 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 32537]

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 32538]

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