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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Mack Strickland

(? - 1862)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted on 10 August 1861 at Neblett's Bluff, LA and mustered as a Private in Captain K Bryan's Company, later Company F, 5th Texas Infantry. He was elected Junior 2nd Lieutenant on 22 July 1862 and promoted to Senior 2nd Lieutenant on 30 August.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and died of wounds at Shepherdstown, VA on 18 or 19 September.

References & notes

His service from Polley, 1 who says he died on 19 September, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. His nativity and death detail, giving 18 September, from a notice in the La Grange (GA) Reporter of 17 October 1862 [page 3], online from Georgia Historic Newspapers.

Birth

Date not known; Chambers County, AL

Death

09/19/1862; Shepherdstown, VA

Notes

1 Polley, Joseph Benjamin, Hood's Texas Brigade, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910, pp. 339-340 [AotW citation 2540]

2 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 35082]

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