Henry B. Badon, age 27, Private, Captain Saml. A. Matthews' Company, (Quitman Guards), Mississippi Volunteers,* enrolled for duty April 20, 1861 at Holmesville, Pike Co., by Capt. P. Brent, recorded as sick in hospital at Lynchburg, Virginia, August 31, 1861, fever, present at the end of October, again reported sick in hospital August 13, 1862, n.p., discharged from hospital January 20, 1863, advanced to the rank of 3rd Corporal, n.d., deserted at Petersburg, Va. January 27, 1865, confined at Knoxville, Tenn. released on signing his Oath of Allegiance to the United States, March, 13, 1865 at Knoxville, Tenn., indicting resident of Pike County, Miss., dark complexion, dark hair, dark eyes, 5' 9", released under parole and sent North to remain North of the Ohio River during the war

* This company was successively designated as Captain Matthews' Company, Mississippi Volunteers, and as Captain Matthews' Company, and Company E, 16th Mississippi Infantry. The 16th Regiment Mississippi Infantry was organized in June, 1861, of companies which had previously been in the State service and was mustered into the Confederate service for 12 months. About May, 1862, the regiment was re-organized for the war.

M269: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Mississippi