Henry Donaldson

In 1860 he was a 35 year old clerk in Mobile, AL. He enlisted there on 24 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 3rd Alabama Infantry. He was promoted to Sergeant in 1862.

He was with his company in Maryland and "Brigadier-General Rodes reports as specially deserving notice for their gallantry ... Sergt Henry Donnelson." He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was in a Richmond, VA hospital from 4 to 18 December with a wound from a piece of shell to his right hip (same as Sharpsburg wound?). He was First Sergeant when he was wounded at Gettysburg, PA, and he was captured on South Mountain in Maryland on 5 July 1863 on the return. He was admitted to a US Army General Hospital in Frederick, MD on 6 July and sent on to Fort McHenry the next day. He was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 9 July until exchanged on 31 July. He was sick in a hospital in Petersburg, VA to 6 August 1863, then furloughed home for 30 days, and was not able to return to his regiment.

He was detailed to the Commissary Department in Mobile as a yard clerk from 26 February to at least October 1864 on a medical certificate. He had been recommended by his chain of command for a commission in the CS Commissary Department as early as February 1864, no such commission found.

His service from the State of Alabama,1 as Henry Donalson, 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 the US Census of 1860.

c. 1825 in MD