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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Matthew Hopson Glenn, Jr.

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 20 year old farmer from Traveller's Rest in Coosa County, AL, he enlisted there on 2 July 1861 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 slightly wounded in the head near Fredericksburg, VA in May 1863 and afterward served with his company through the war. He was captured on 6 April 1865 in Richmond, VA and paroled there on 19 April, giving his destination as New York.

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 1850.

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 32541]

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 32542]

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