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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Henry L. Brittain

(c. 1837 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a married 23 year old farmer near Oak Ridge in Meriwether County, GA. He enlisted as a Private in Company B, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 at Griffin, GA.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, also as Henry L. Britton. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 and 1860; he may have been named after his uncle Henry Lansford Brittain (1797-1890).

Birth

c. 1837; Meriwether County, GA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 7223]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 27865]

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