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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Henry T. Parham

(c. 1830 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 29 year old farmer near Hickory Grove in Crawford County, GA. He enlisted there on 8 March 1862 as a Private in Company E, 6th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot and captured in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.

The rest of the War

He died from wounds in the Smoketown (Antietam) Federal field hospital near the battlefield later in September 1862. His widow Malinda filed for his final pay in July 1863.

References & notes

His service information from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Malinda C. Hammack (1834-1899) in about 1860 and they had a daughter Dora Belle (1860-1929).

Birth

c. 1830; Crawford County, GA

Death

09/00/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 1, p. 791 [AotW citation 9629]

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 30010]

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