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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Henry Huff

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 44th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 15 year old living with his parents, 7 younger siblings, and 2 slaves on their farm near Watkinsville in Clarke County, GA. He enlisted in Goldsboro, NC on 7 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 44th Georgia 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 admitted to the Camp Winder hospital in Richmond, VA on 11 October and died there the next day.

His father Green Huff filed a claim for his final pay in January 1863.

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.

Birth

c. 1844; Clarke County, GA

Death

10/11/1862; 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 34668]

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: #272 [AotW citation 34669]

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