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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Robert A. Mason

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 20 year old farmer from Tallassee, AL, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C 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 continued in service with his company and was in all of their battles until he was wounded at Jones' Farm near Petersburg, VA on 30 September 1864. He was admitted to Howard's Grove Hospital in Richmond, VA on 2 October and furloughed for 60 days on 20 October 1864 with no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2

Birth

c. 1841 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 32751]

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 32752]

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