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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Daniel Samuel Kight

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 18 year old farmer from Bowdon, GA, he enlisted on 24 April 1862 at Eastville, AL and mustered as a Private in Company E of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September but was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His father Shadric [sic] filed for his final pay in September 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, also as S.D. Kight, and from the Alabama Archives,2 as Samuel D Kite.

Birth

c. 1844 in GA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 32704]

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 32705]

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