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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

David R. T. Howe

(c. 1838 - 1865)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 23, from Roanoke in Randolph County, AL, he enlisted on 19 July 1861 in Montgomery, AL and mustered as 2nd Corporal of Company I 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 promoted to First Corporal on 1 January 1863. He was captured in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD to 12 August, when he was transferred to the prison at Elmira, NY. He died there of disease on 1 May 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1838 in GA

Death

05/01/1865; Elmira, NY; burial in Woodlawn National Cemetery, Elmira, NY

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 32646]

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 32647]

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