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(c. 1829 - 1864)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 5th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted in Talladega, AL on 1 May 1861 and mustered as a Sergeant in Company E (later B), 5th Alabama Infantry. He was wounded by a gunshot to his arm in July 1862, place not given, and in hospitals in Richmond, Lynchburg, and Danville, VA. He returned to duty on 20 August.
On the Campaign
He was with his company in Maryland and "Brigadier-General Rodes reports as specially deserving notice for their gallantry ... Sergt. A. Swicegood."
The rest of the War
He was First Sergeant by January 1863, when he was sick with fever in a hospital in Charlottesville, VA. There is no later military record.
References & notes
His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. The Rodes quote above from General D H Hill's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850. His family name also seen as Swisegood, possibly from the German Schweissguth.
Birth
c. 1829 in NC
Death
1864
1 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=198064 etc [AotW citation 33991]
2 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 33992]