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(c. 1828 - 1865)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 33 year old farmer in Butler County, AL. He enlisted in Greenville, AL on 5 July 1861 and mustered in Montgomery, AL on 19 July as a Private in Company G of the 13th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September, but went to the rear, ill, before the battle at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863. He was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 6 July 1863 to 14 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, as Robert A. Redman, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists, also as Robert A. Redmond, and the US Census of 1860.
He married Julia Ann Burgess (1829-1859) in December 1844 and they had 8 children. He married again, Mary Ann Lansdon (1841-) in August 1859 and they had 3 more.
Birth
c. 1828 in AL
Death
1865; in AL
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 32869]
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 32870]