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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Matthew N. Waldrop

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 17 year old farmer at Rockford in Randolph County AL. He enlisted at Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was captured there the next day.

The rest of the War

He was sent from Fort Delaware to Aikens' Landing, VA on 2 October and formally exchanged there on 10 November 1862. He was captured again, at Gettysburg, PA on 3 or 4 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 7 July 1863 to 30 September (or October) 1864 when he was exchanged. He was paroled at Talladega, AL on 22 May 1865.

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 1860.

His cousin Seburn M. Waldrop was also in Company D.

Birth

c. 1843 in 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 32983]

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 32984]

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