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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Henry Purvis Alsop

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 30th Virginia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A farmer's son from Spottsylvania, age 17, and a student in Fredericksburg, VA, he enlisted there on 23 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 30th Virginia Infantry. He was appointed 3rd Corporal on 1 September and promoted to 2nd Corporal on 18 November 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of wounds at "Mr Samuel Bealer's House," date not given. He was originally buried "in Samuel Beeler's barn field along the fence, running east from the barn" near the battlefield at Sharpsburg.

After the War

He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett,1 who has him as Pvt. H.P Alsop. Death detail from the Virginia Military Dead.2 His service from his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3 and Krick.4 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1844; Spotsylvania County, VA

Death

1862; Sharpsburg, MD; 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 4530]

2 Library of Virginia, Virginia Military Dead Database, Published 2002, first accessed 30 November 2012, <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/vmd/>, Source page: /vmd_Search.asp [AotW citation 18844]

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