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H W. Long
Residence was not listed;
Enlisted as a Private
"K" Co. TX 9th Infantry
Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records
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Henry W. Long, age 21, enlisted as a Private in Captain Miles A. Dillard's Company, Maxey's Regiment Texas Infantry* September 28, 1861 at Tollets Prairie/Lamar County, Texas by M. A. Dillard for 12 months, he "Appears on a List of men of the 9th Regiment Texas Infantry, who returned without arms from the battle field of Shiloh," left sick at West Point, Georgia July 2, 1862, recorded at the end of October, 1862 as absent, Left sick between Mumfordville & Bardstown, Ky., returned March 15, 1863, admitted to hospital in Petersburg, Va. April 4, 1863, recorded present the end of June, 1863, recorded absent without leave from July 17, 1863 through October, captured near Jackson, Mississippi July, 1863 and sent to Snyder's Bluff, Miss., July 30,1863, POW at Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Indiana, captured as a Deserter July 14, at Jackson, Miss., desired to take the Oath of Allegiance [US], "Conscripted 15 Jan 62 Lamar Co. Texas Wants to take the Oath remain North as loyal man, Recommended," transferred for exchange March 15, 1863, "paroled at Camp Morton, Ind., and forwarded to Point Lookout, Md., via the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, for exchange, in pursuance of instructions received by telegraph from the Commissary General of Prisoners, dated Washington, D. C., March 10, 1865"
* This company subsequently became Company K, 9th (Young's) Regiment Texas Infantry.
The 9th (also known as the 8th and as Maxey's) Regiment Texas Infantry appears to have been organized about November 4, 1861. It was mustered into the service of the Confederate States December 1, 1861, for twelve months, under special authority from the Secretary of War, and it was re-organized May 8,1862, under the Conscript Act.