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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Constantine Lafayette McDonald

(c. 1845 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 15 year old farm hand living with his widowed mother and 8 siblings at Rockford, Coosa County, AL. He enlisted in Coosa County, AL on 8 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company H 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 seriously wounded by a gunshot to his right shoulder at Mine Run, VA on 27 November 1862, was admitted to Howard's Grove Hospital in Richmond, VA on 30 November, and furloughed for 40 days on 2 January 1864. He was detailed as a nurse at Howard's Grove on 14 June 1864 with no later military record.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1845 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 32764]

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 32765]

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