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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Hasting M. Todd

(c. 1829 - 1898)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a married 30 year old farmer with a small place at Buyckville/Rockford in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 17 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was appointed 4th Sergeant on 1 October 1861 and was 3rd Sergeant by February 1862. He was slightly wounded at Seven Pines, VA on 31 May 1862

On the Campaign

He was with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and was promoted to First Sergeant from that date.

The rest of the War

He continued in service with his company in all their battles to the end of the war. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

In 1870 he was farming at Sykes Mill in Elmore County, AL but by 1880 was a laborer in St Clair County, AL.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives,2 both as Hastings M Todd. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His memorial is on Findagrave.

He married Georgia Ann Smith (1832-1889) and they had 9 children between 1851 and 1875.

Birth

c. 1829; Laurens District, SC

Death

08/29/1898; Alpine, 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 32973]

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 32974]