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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Miles Gilhuly

(c. 1834 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted on 29 July 1861 in Fredonia, AL and mustered as a Private in Company C, 14th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right shoulder at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. His humerus (upper arm) bone was broken. A surgeon removed the head of his humerus, date not given.

The rest of the War

By October 1862 he was in a hospital in Winchester, VA, and was in Richmond, VA hospitals or on furlough from November 1862 to at least March 1863. He was again on furlough by August 1863 to at least October 1864, the last record in his file.

After the War

By 1870 he was a grocer at Chambers Court House in Chambers County, AL.

References & notes

His service from Hurst1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, also as Miles Gilhooly. Wound details from the MSHWR,3 which says he was wounded on 7 September. Personal details from the US Census of 1870.

Birth

c. 1834 in IRELAND

Notes

1 Hurst, Marshall B., History of the Fourteenth Regiment Alabama Vols, Richmond (Va): M.B. Hurst, 1863, pp. 13 - 20 [AotW citation 9370]

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 32174]

3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 547 [AotW citation 32175]

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