CRAIGHEAD, LEMUEL ANDREW (VETERAN CSA) - Claiborne County, Louisiana | LEMUEL ANDREW (VETERAN CSA) CRAIGHEAD - Louisiana Gravestone Photos

Lemuel Andrew (Veteran CSA) CRAIGHEAD

Craighead (Athens) Cemetery
Claiborne County,
Louisiana

PRIVATE CSA
Company B 12 Regiment Louisiana Infantry
Civil War Confederate
April 1, 1838 - September 2, 1911

Lemuel Andrew Craighead enlisted on August 13, 1861, at Camp Moore, Louisiana. On June 12, 1862, he was listed as sick in the hospital in Grenada, Mississippi, until September 1, 1863, when he was discharged from the service. He was issued a Certificate of Disability upon discharge. The attending physician certified Lemuel Craighead had tuberculosis and hypertrophy of the heart. On March 5, 1865, he was admitted to the CSA General Hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana, and transferred on April 1, 1865, to Keatchi. His record upon admission to the CSA General Hospital reflected his unit as Provost Guard.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, The National Archives, Publication M320, Roll 0236
Confederate Pension Application Index Database, Reel CP1.33 - Microdex 1 - Sequence 18 & 19

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Submitted: 7/30/20 • Approved: 7/30/20 • Last Updated: 8/2/20 • R274342-G0-S3

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