Henry Young Rowland

In 1860 he was an unmarried 18 year old living with his father, stepmother (?), 6 siblings, and 5 slaves on their farm at Louisville in Winston County, MS. He mustered for state service on 16 March 1861 as 3rd Corporal of the Winston Guards, and enlisted and mustered with them on 14 May 1861 for the Confederacy in Corinth, MS, later as Company A, 13th Mississippi Infantry. He first saw action with them at Manassas, VA on 17 July and he was reduced to Private on 16 April 1862 at his own request.

He was with his company in action on Maryland Heights near Harpers Ferry on 13 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He continued in service with his unit through Fredericksburg, where he was slightly wounded, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga, and was captured at Knoxville, TN on 29 November 1863. He was sent to the prison at Rock Island, IL on 30 December 1863 and took an oath of allegiance to the United States there on 18 June 1865 was released.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was farming at Center Point/Macon in Noxubee County, MS. In 1900 he was a farmer at Bovina in Warren County, MS but by 1910 was a night watchman in a seating factory in Jackson, MS.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph of unknown provenance posted to the Mississippi Confederate Images page on Facebook.

He married Martha A. "Mattie" Martin (1854-) in November 1875 and they had 2 sons.

04/1842 in SC

10/1915; Jackson, MS; burial in Cedarlawn Cemetery, Jackson, MS