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Submitted: 11/9/15 • Approved: 11/9/15 • Last Updated: 4/14/23 • R111055-G0-S3
PRIVATE CSA
Company D 16 Louisiana Infantry
Civil War Confederate
August 4, 1840 - August 3, 1913
From Louisiana Archives ~ Bankston, Howell J, Private Company D. 16th Louisiana Infantry. Enlisted Camp Moore, Louisiana, September 29, 1861. Present to October, 1861. November & December, 1861. "Absent on Detached Service as Guard at Parish Prison, New Orleans, La." Present January 31, 1862 - March 1, 1862. Admitted March 17, 1862, to 1st Mississippi C S A Hospital, Jackson, Mississippi. Returned to Duty April 15, 1862. Remarks., "Detailed as Nurse." Roll for May & June, 1862, "Ceased to Belong to Company. Discharged May 3, 1862. Paid in Full."
See also Louisiana Confederate Pension applications ~
Reel CP1.6 - Microdex: 4 - Sequence: 19 - Charity Bankston applied for pension.
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Contributed on 11/9/15
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