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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Lerory H. Brown

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a successful carpenter, in 1860 he was a 19 year old living with his parents and 4 siblings at Hopeful in Burke County, GA. He enlisted in Augusta, GA on 18 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company E, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

On the Campaign

Initially thought to have been wounded at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and "left behind," he was killed in action there.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1841 in GA

Death

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD

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 33723]

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