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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Henry M. Long

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 21 year old trader, he enlisted in Milton, NC on 24 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 15 May in Raleigh. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861. He was appointed 2nd Corporal on 26 April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to 3rd Sergeant on 1 April 1863 and was wounded again, on 1 July at Gettysburg, PA. He was back on duty about November 1863 and was promoted to First Sergeant of his company on 29 April 1864. He was wounded for the third time, by a gunshot to his hand in May 1864, place not given, and returned to duty from a hospital in Danville, VA on 21 June. He was captured in a hospital in Richmond, VA on 3 April 1865 and released from prison at Newport News, VA on 16 June 1865.

References & notes

His service from Moore's Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1840

Notes

1 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 1, p. 482 [AotW citation 33200]

2 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 33201]

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