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R.H.J. Mallory
(1840 - 1929)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 12th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 20 year old farm hand living with his widowed mother and 6 siblings on their farm near Rockford in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted at Camp Bradford in Coosa County on 17 June 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 12th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was wounded again, at Gettysburg, PA in July 1863, and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
In 1870 he was "working for wages" in Coosa County, AL but by 1880 was farming his own place there. In 1900 he was a farmer in Elmore County, AL. At the 1921 Census of former Confederate soldiers, he was living in Tallassee, AL.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph of unknown provenance contributed by user GLA3; thanks to Greyson Beardsley for the pointer to it.
He married Fairby Elizabeth Morgan (1846-1915) in November 1869 and they had 4 children.
Birth
12/16/1840; Coosa County, AL
Death
08/23/1929; Tallassee, AL; burial in Rose Hill Cemetery, Tallassee, AL
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 33819]
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>, Source page: /research/CivilWarSoldier.aspx?id=124195 +others [AotW citation 33820]