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Submitted: 11/9/15 • Approved: 11/10/15 • Last Updated: 3/26/18 • R111098-G0-S3
SERGEANT CSA
Company I 9 Infantry
Civil War Confederate
September 3, 1839 - September 6, 1884
From Louisiana Archives ~ Self, Levi H, Sergeant, Private Company I, 9th Louisiana Infantry. Enlisted July 7, 1861, Camp Moore, Louisiana. Roll to August 31, 1861, dated September 20, 1861, Absent at Orange Court House, sick. Rolls September, 1861 - December 1861, Present. Roll June 30, 1862, Present. Was Corporal up to September 30, 1862, when Appointed 1st Sergeant Roll dated February 10, 1862, Present, Enlistment extended for the War. Roll May & June, 1862, Present. Roll November & December, 1862, Present. Was 1st Sergeant up to December 22, 1862, when reduced to ranks. Rolls January 1863, to April, 1863, Present. Roll May & June, 1863, Absent without leave. Rolls July, 1863 - November 1863, Present. Rolls November 1863 - February, 1864 Absent, taken Prisoner November 7, 1863, Rappahannock Station, Virginia. Federal Rolls of Prisoners of War, Captured Rappahannock, Virginia, November 7, 1863. Received Point Lookout, Maryland, from Washington, November 11,1863. Paroled Point Lookout, Maryland, until exchanged. Exchanged City Point, Virginia, March 15, 1864. Rolls May 1 - August 31, 1864, Deserted _, 1864, date unknown. Record copied from Memorial Hall, New Orleans, La., by the War Dept., Washington, D C, June, 1963, born Louisiana, occupation farmer, Residence Osyka, age when enlisted 25, single. Discharged & enlisted in 9th Battalion of Cavalry
Also see Louisiana Confederate Pension applications - Reel: CP1.125 -- Microdex: 3 -- Sequence: 17 Dorcas M Bankston Self applied for widow's pension
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