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Submitted: 11/29/17 • Approved: 12/6/17 • Last Updated: 3/24/18 • R174977-G0-S3
PRIVATE CSA
Company K 12 Louisiana Infantry
Civil War Confederate
March 1, 1846 - April 20, 1916
From Louisiana Archives ~ Stark, Richard W, Private Company K, 12th Louisiana Infantry. Enlisted June 17, 1862, Columbia, Louisiana. Rolls November, 1862,to April, 1863, Present. Roll May and June, 1863, Absent, sick, in Hospital, since June 23, 1863.Rolls July, 1863, to December, 1863, Absent without leave since July 10, 1863. Federal Rolls of Prisoners of War, Captured Jackson, Miss., July _, 1863. Sent to Snyders Bluff, Mississippi, July 30,
1863. Trans. to Camp Morton, Ind., Aug. 7, 1863. Forwarded to Fort Delaware, Delaware, March 19, 1864. Paroled at Fort Delaware, Delaware, and sent to City Point, Virginia, for exchange, March 7, 1865. Exchanged Boulwares and Coxes Wharf, James River, Virginia, March 10 to 12, 1865.
Also see Louisiana Confederate Pension Applications ~ Reel CP1.132 - Microdex 2 - Sequence 17 ~ Richard W Stark applied for pension in Catahoula Parish & Reel CP1.132 - Microdex 2 - Sequence 14 ~ Medora V Southerland Stark applied for widow's pension in Caldwell Parish.
Photo courtesy of Shirley Burks Wells
Contributed on 11/29/17
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