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(? - 1862)
Home State: Virginia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 5th Virginia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
From Winchester, he mustered there as Private, Company K, 5th Virginia Infantry on 18 April 1861. He was promoted to Corporal on 18 May 1862 and was wounded at Malvern Hill, VA on 1 July.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was originally buried on the field at Sharpsburg near "Mrs. Lucker's" [Locker] barn. Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Burial information from Pruett,1 who has him as Pvt. H. Grove. Service and other details from Lee A. Wallace's 5th Virginia Infantry (roster, 1988) via the Historical Data Systems database.
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD
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 4705]