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(c. 1820 - 1862)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a married 40 year old farmer with a small place at Rainsville in Butler County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G 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 admitted to the Camp Winder Hospital, Division 3, in Richmond, VA on 28 October with variola (smallpox) and died there on 19 November 1862.
His widow Penny filed a claim for his final pay of $175.20 in January 1864.
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 1850 & 1860, also as Smyth, both of which have his birth in South Carolina; his military Descriptive List says he was born in Butler County, AL. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Penny A. D. (?, 1825-) before 1850.
Birth
c. 1820 in SC
Death
11/19/1862; Richmond, VA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
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 32925]
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 32926]