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Confederate (CSV)

Private

L. Lawson Houk

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at age 19 in Charlotte, NC in Company D, 6th North Carolina Infantry on 28 May 1861.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Basic information from Iobst1. Six of his wartime letters to his cousin Lavinia Fisher, Chatham County, NC are in the Private Voices archive. Thanks to Devan Sommerville for scrubbing through the volume, extracting and transcribing the roster data for AotW.

Birth

c. 1842

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Iobst, Richard William, and Louis H. Manarin, Wade Lucas, The Bloody Sixth : the Sixth North Carolina Regiment, Confederate States of America, Raleigh: North Carolina Confederate Centennial Commission, 1965, pp. 335 - 346 [AotW citation 6343]

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