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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Lawson M. Teal

(c. 1841 - 1890)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 19 year old clerk in Montgomery, AL, he enlisted there on 19 July 1861 and mustered as 2nd Corporal of Company B, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was appointed 2nd Sergeant on 19 October 1861.

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 continued with the company in action at Chancellorsville, VA and Gettysburg, PA. He transferred to Company C of the 35th Georgia Infantry on 1 December 1863. He was with them to at least July 1864, the latest record in his military file.

After the War

By 1870 he was a tinner (tinsmith) in Lowndesboro, Lowndes County, AL, but by 1880 was a Police Marshal in Birmingham, AL.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Adelaide Potter (1849-) in June 1866 and they had 5 children.

Birth

c. 1841 in TN

Death

05/11/1890; Birmingham, AL; burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Birmingham, AL

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 32956]

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 32957]

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