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Confederate (CSV)

Private

R. D. Murrell

(c. 1840 - 1863)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 21, from Yazoo County, MS, he enlisted in Satartia, MS on 24 April 1861 and mustered in Corinth, MS on 12 May as a Private in Company I (later B), 12th Mississippi Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 18 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 10 October and listed as a deserter there on 26 October. He was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862.

He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #5 in Richmond with typhoid fever on 14 April 1863, sent to nearby Camp Winder hospital on 24 April, and died there on 28 April 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, indexed under R.D. Murrill. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

04/28/1863; Richmond, VA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA

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 34102]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #109 [AotW citation 34103]

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