Vincent H. Hallum

From Gilmer County, he enlisted as a Private in Company D, 23rd Georgia Infantry on 31 August 1861. He was appointed Sergeant by 1 July 1862 and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 24 August 1862.

He was mortally wounded in his right leg, the bone broken, in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September and he was captured there.

Sometime after 25 September, when he signed a parole, he died of his wounds at the "Stone House Hospital" on the Samuel Poffenberger farm near Sharpsburg. He was originally buried "on eastern side of branch in Samuel Poffenbarger's meadow and along the line fence between Poffenbarger and Miller" near the battlefield at Sharpsburg [map]. His widow Sarah applied for his final pay in January 1863.

He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

Burial information from Pruett1, who has him as Lieutenant D. H. Hallman. His Service from Henderson,2 also as D.H. Hallum, and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists.

He married Sarah Jane Bradley (later Langford, 1840-1919) in 1855 and they had 3 children.

Thanks to Laura Elliott for the pointer to look further into Hallum in an excellent post on Civil War Talk.

1833; Lumpkin County, GA

1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD