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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Elbert D. Hastie

(c. 1837 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 23 year old teacher living with Lot Dodson, his family, and 4 slaves on their farm in Tallapoosa County, AL. He enlisted at Yorktown, VA on 22 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C 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 died of pneumonia in the 2nd Alabama Hospital in Richmond, VA on 8 February 1863. His father Robert filed for his final pay in July 1864.

References & notes

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

His (probable) brothers Robert and Lloyd were also in Company C and at Sharpsburg.

Birth

c. 1837 in GA

Death

02/08/1863; Richmond, VA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA

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 32575]

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 32576]

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