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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Henry C. Snellings

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

A planter's son, in 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his father, stepmother (?), 8 siblings, and 12 slaves on their farm near Madison in Morgan County, GA. He enlisted there on 15 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company G of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

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 father Madison filed a claim for his final pay of $119.36 in February 1863, which was probably paid in July 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1844; Morgan 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 33902]

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