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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Henry McDonald

(c. 1826 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A married 35 year old barber in Mobile, AL, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October when he was transferred to Aikens' Landing, VA; he was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was captured at Farmville, VA on 6 April 1865 and held at Point Lookout, MD until 6 June 1865 when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1826 in ENGLAND

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 32766]

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 32767]

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