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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Hayden Coe Reagin

(1839 - 1926)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farmer living with his parents and 6 siblings on their small farm near Lithonia in DeKalb County, GA. He enlisted on 1 August 1861 in Decatur, GA and mustered on 5 August as a Private in Company C of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was held at the post hospital in Fort McHenry in Baltimore to 17 October, then sent to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange. He was afterward with his company to their surrender and parole at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

In 1870 he was a farmer at Conyers in Newton County, GA but by 1880 and to at least 1920, then 80 years old, was a farmer back in DeKalb County, GA.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brothers William and Harrison T Reagin (1841-1915) were also in Company C of the Legion.

He married Mary Elizabeth Isabel Wiggins (1841-1913) in October 1866 and they had 6 sons and 2 daughters.

Birth

06/19/1839; DeKalb County, GA

Death

12/08/1926; DeKalb County, GA; burial in Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery, Lithonia, GA

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 33890]

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