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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Thomas J. Lovvorn

(c. 1843 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 17 year old farmer in Randolph County, Al. He enlisted there (or in Montgomery) on 26 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was killed at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863.

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 brothers James (enlisted 1863) and William (transferred from 44th Alabama in 1863) were also in Company E.

Birth

c. 1843 in AL

Death

07/01/1863; Gettysburg, PA

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 32734]

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 32735]

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