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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

John H. Speer

(c. 1840 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 20 year old farm hand living with his father, 8 siblings, and 8 slaves on their plantation at Buykeville/Rockford in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted in Wetumpka, AL on 15 July 1861 and mustered in Montgomery, AL on 19 July as 4th Corporal of Company C of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was First Corporal by July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was paroled at Keedysville, MD on 20 September 1862. He was promoted to 4th Sergeant about May 1863 and was killed at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 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.

Birth

c. 1840; Abbeville District, SC

Death

07/03/1863; Gettysburg, PA

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 32930]

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 32931]

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