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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Ezekiel Yancey

(c. 1846 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 14 year old farmer living with his parents and 5 siblings on their small farm at Rockdale/Eastville in Randolph County, AL. Giving his age as 17, he enlisted there on 6 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 6 July 1863 to his death from inflammation of the lungs there on 23 October 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records 1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1846 in GA

Death

10/23/1863; Fort Delaware, DE; burial in Finn's Point National Cemetery, Pennsville, NJ

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 33057]

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 33058]

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