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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Henry Elbridge Dowell

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Louisiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Louisiana Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted on 14 August 1861 at Camp Magruder, VA and mustered as a Private in Company B, 2nd Louisiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3.

More on the Web

See a c.1857 photograph of Henry at about age 15 on Facebook from collector Erik McBroom. Thanks to Greyson Beardsley for the pointer to that.

Birth

c. 1842

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, 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 33817]