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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James R. A. Henderson

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Camp Clifton in Stafford County, VA on 18 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 47th Virginia 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 then possibly transferred for exchange. There is no later military, medical, or prisoner of war record.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2

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 34686]

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: #279 [AotW citation 34687]

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