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Confederate (CSV)

Private

R. Leyton Smith

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 22, a farmer from Guilford County, he enlisted on 28 February 1862 at Greensboro, NC and mustered as Private, Company B, 27th North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

His widow Sarah Jane filed for his final pay of $53.23 in December 1862, which was paid in July 1864.

References & notes

His service from Wilson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists.

He married Sarah Jane McClintock in August 1861.

Birth

c. 1840; Guildford County, NC

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9823]

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 32075]

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