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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Hamilton Howard Wood

"Hamp"

(1818 - 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 17th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company A, 17th Mississippi Infantry on about 1 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

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 Pruett1. His service from his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database. His death from a roster compiled by Walter F. Cox and Bruce Reith on RootsWeb. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

11/13/1818; Humphreys County, TN

Death

09/17/1862; 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 5036]

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