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A. Hupp
(1818 - 1863)
Home State: Virginia
Command Billet: Battery Commander
Branch of Service: Artillery
Before Sharpsburg
As early as 1848 he operated a tin shop, Hupp's Phoenix Tin Establishment, manufacturing metal ware, in Salem, Virginia. He bought and donated to the town its first fire pumper in that year, after a fire severely damaged his shop. He organized the Salem Flying Artillery after John Brown's attack on Harper's Ferry (1859) and was their Captain.
By then age 42, he enrolled and was commissioned into Confederate service with his battery on 14 May 1861 in Salem.
On the Campaign
He commanded the battery on the Campaign.
The rest of the War
In October 1862 he returned home too ill to command, and he died of cancer there in September 1863.
References & notes
His service from Richard L. Nicholas and Joseph Servis' Powhatan, Salem and Courtney Henrico Artillery (1997). His gravesite is on Findagrave.
More on the Web
See a brief history, citing Captain Hupp, online from the city of Salem, Virginia, source also of his picture.
Birth
09/27/1818
Death
09/02/1863; Salem, VA; burial in East Hill Cemetery, Salem, VA