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Confederate (CSV)

Private

David Madison Morgan

(1816 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 47th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a married 44 year old farmer living with his wife and 8 children on his small farm at Rockdale/Wedowee in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted at Loachapoka, AL on 14 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company G of the 47th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was with his company at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December but afterward in hospitals in Richmond, VA where he died of pneumonia on 8 January 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Esther Montgomery Bell (1819-1884) in January 1841 and they had 13 children.

His son James was also at Sharpsburg, a Private in the 13th Alabama Infantry.

Birth

04/26/1816; Madison, GA

Death

01/08/1863; Richmond, VA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA

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 32805]

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 32806]

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