Henry Wright Pond

Son of Judge Ebenezer Pond (owner of 17 slaves in 1860), he was an unmarried 22 year old farmer at Wetumpka in Coosa County, AL when he enlisted there on 15 July 1861 and he mustered in Montgomery on 19 July as 3rd Sergeant of Company C of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was 2nd Sergeant by January 1862, First Sergeant by June, and was elected 2nd Lieutenant on 9 July 1862.

He was with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 26 September and furloughed home on 6 October 1862. He was wounded again, at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863. He was briefly held at Forts McHenry and Delaware, then a prisoner at Johnson's Island near Sandusky, OH from 20 July 1863 until he was transferred to Point Lookout, MD for exchange on 14 March 1865. There is no later military record.

By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer at Rockford in Coosa County, AL. He had retired there by 1910.

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 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha Ann "Mattie" Wilson (1841-1922) and they had 9 children between 1868 and 1885.

10/10/1839; Coosa County, AL

04/23/1911; Coosa County, AL; burial in Rockford Cemetery, Rockford, AL