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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Anson Kent

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 21 year old laborer living with his parents and 4 younger siblings on their small farm at Friendship in Butler County, Al. He enlisted on 19 July 1861 at Montgomery, AL and mustered as a Private in Company G 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 captured at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863. He was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 6 or 7 July to 7 June 1865 when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

His brother John, also in Company G, was wounded on South Mountain.

Birth

c. 1839 in AL

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 32700]

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 32701]

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