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Not-quite 19 year old farm boy John W Wesley enlisted at Decatur in DeKalb County, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered on 5 August as a Private in Captain Luther Glenn’s Stephens Rifles – Company C of Cobb’s Legion Infantry Battalion. He was marked as present for the period of November and December 1861…

At Frederick, MD on 9 September 1862 Adam J. Alexander of the 10th Louisiana Infantry signed this receipt for 3 pairs of shoes, 4 shirts, and 4 pairs of drawers for his men. It is likely these had been procured in the city from local businesses by Confederate quartermasters. There are a number of interesting…

This excellent reference is clipped from the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 17 December 1862, and was kindly supplied by Greyson Beardsley. It is a list of Confederate soldiers from Louisiana who were wounded and left on the field at Sharpsburg that September. There is much here I need to add to my information about these…

Lieutenant Alexander H Pickett, Adjutant of the 3rd Alabama Infantry submitted this request and signed for receipt of a new battle flag and staff on 5 April 1863. It appears that most or all of the regiments of General D.H. Hill’s Division were supplied with new wool bunting “3rd issue” flags from the Richmond (VA)…

On 19 August 1864 the Confederate Conscription Bureau in Richmond, VA sent a notice to the Army’s Adjutant General that Private J.H. Garrison was considered a deserter from Company B of Cobb’s Legion Infantry Battalion and was thought to be in the 14th Texas. The Bureau had no direct authority to return a soldier to…

Son of a prosperous planter, John N Henderson was 18 years old in July 1861 when he enlisted as a Private in Company E of the 5th Texas Infantry in Washington, TX. He was not yet 20 when he was shot in the left arm in combat at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. He lost…