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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Moses F. C. Collins

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 24th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Habersham County, GA on 24 August 1861 and mustered in Atlanta on about 29 August as a Private in Company H, 24th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 30 September 1862 and died of wounds on 1 November 1862, places not given.

His father Benjamin filed a claim for his final pay in September 1863.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett,1, who has him as H.F. Collins. Service from the Roster 2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3, also as C.F.M. Collins. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850.

Birth

c. 1842 in GA

Death

11/01/1862; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4439]

2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19450]

3 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 34268]

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