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"Berry"
(1826 - 1897)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 28th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1850 he was a 24 year old year farmer in Meriwether County, GA. He enlisted at Camp Stephens, GA on 10 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 28th Georgia Infantry. He was wounded in his right shoulder at Malvern Hill, VA on 1 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mentioned by Brigadier General Colquitt for gallantry in Maryland and was wounded again, in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He received pay in December 1862 in Atlanta, GA and was still absent, wounded, to at least December 1863, the last record in his military file.
After the War
By 1870 he was a farmer at Warm Springs in Meriwether County, GA.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 as L.B. Hannah, online from fold3. The Colquitt citation is from General D H Hill's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870.
He married Adaline F. Gill (1818-) in November 1848 and they had 3 children.
His nephew Issac W Hannah (b. 1842) was also in Company E and died of typhoid in Richmond, VA on 7 October 1862.
Birth
05/26/1826; Meriwether County, GA
Death
1897; Columbus, GA
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 34010]