H. Sconyers

Confederate (CSV)

Private

Harrison Sconyers

(c. 1843 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 17 year old farm laborer living with 5 younger siblings next door to his parents at Mt Olive in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted in Coosa County on 27 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 captured at Gettysburg, PA in July 1863 and died of disease while a prisoner at Fort Delaware on 31 October 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, source also of his picture, from a photograph contributed by Chris Van Blargan.

Birth

c. 1843 in AL

Death

10/31/1863; Fort Delaware, DE; burial in Finn's Point National Cemetery, Pennsville, NJ

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 32911]

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 32912]

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