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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Samuel Watts

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 23 year old day laborer living with Robert A Sentelle, his family, and 4 slaves on their plantation at Realtown in Tallapoosa County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 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 was wounded at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

By 1870 he was a farm worker back at Realtown in Tallapoosa County.

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 & 1870.

He married Augusta A. Hubbord (1832-) in October 1867.

Birth

c. 1838 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 32997]

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 32998]

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