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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Hugh M. York

(c. 1844 - 1892)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 16 year old farmer living with his parents William and Nancy and 5 younger siblings on their small farm at Rockdale in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Randolph County on 21 July 1861 and mustered in Montgomery, AL on 26 July as a Private in Company E, 13th Alabama Infantry. He transferred to Company D on 1 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was held at Fort Delaware until 2 October when he was sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital from 9 October to 11 November 1862; he had been formally exchanged on 10 November 1862 to return to duty. He was wounded in the left arm at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863. He was with his unit again by October 1863 with no later military details.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records 1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists, also as Hugh Mack York, and the US Census of 1860.

His father William was also in Company D.

Birth

c. 1844; Cobb County, GA

Death

1892; Randolph County, 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 33063]

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 33064]

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