Vincent H. Hallum

From Gilmer County, he enlisted as 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].

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's Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia via Fincham2 as D.H. Hallum. 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 further details from his service records and his widow's claim for his back pay, all in an excellent post on Civil War Talk.

1833; Lumpkin County, GA

Date not known; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD