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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Samuel H. East

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 19th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Son of the plantation overseer, in 1860 he was a 19 year old living with his parents, sister, and 54 slaves on the Thomas A Moore plantation in Noxubee County, MS. He enlisted at Macon, MS on 17 May 1861 and mustered in Richmond, VA on 4 June as a Private in Company A, 19th 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 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital from 11 October to 18 October, then sent to the parole camp, and was formally exchanged on 10 November.

He was absent, sick, from April to November 1863. He was listed as absent without leave after 10 April 1864, but returned by October and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

By 1870 he was a farmer on his parent's place at Artesia in Lowndes County, MS.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1870.

Birth

c. 1841 in MS

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 34224]

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: #224 [AotW citation 34225]

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