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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Thomas Smith

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 18 year old farmer from Goldridge, AL, he enlisted in Eastville, AL on 5 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E 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 transferred to Company F of the 19th Georgia Infantry on 15 December 1862.

He was captured on the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA on 19 August 1864 and was held at Point Lookout, MD. He was released there after enlisting for United States service on 15 October 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2

Birth

c. 1843 in GA

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 32927]

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 32928]

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