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Confederate (CSV)

Private

David W. Byrd

(c. 1845 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

Age 16, he enlisted in Waynesboro, GA on 12 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the US 6th Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD but died there of wounds on 1 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Birth details from family genealogists.

Birth

c. 1845; Richmond County, GA

Death

10/01/1862; Burkittsville, 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 33727]

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