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Confederate (CSA)

Private

Francis H. Huffman

"Frank"

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 21 year old laborer living with his widowed mother Sarah, a seamstress, and 7 younger siblings in Richmond County, GA. He enlisted in Waynesboro, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered on 8 August in Richmond, VA as a Private in Company E, Cobb's Legion Infantry Battalion.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His widow Ruthie filed a claim for his final pay in November 1862 which was finally paid in October 1864. She gave his name as Francis J Huffman.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 & 1860, also as Francis A Huffman.

He married Ruth Samuel Wilson (later Deas, 1847-1915) in November 1860. Her second husband Murphy Deas had been a soldier in the 3rd Georgia Infantry.

Birth

c. 1839; Jefferson County, 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 33828]

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