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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Henry Lewis Smith

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 47th Virginia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old laborer living with his widowed mother and 7 siblings at Stafford Court House, VA. He enlisted at Aquia Creek in Stafford County, VA on 15 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Captain Bruce's Company, later Company I, 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 and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was received there on 6 October, in a Richmond, VA hospital by 9 October, and furloughed for 20 days on 5 November. There is no later military record.

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. 1840 in 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 34688]

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: #266 [AotW citation 34689]

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