Edmund Dillard

Residence Caroline County VA; a 45 year-old Farmer.
Enlisted on 3/20/1862 as a Private.
On 3/20/1862 he mustered into "H" Co. VA 47th Infantry
He was listed as:
* Absent without leave 5/15/1862 (place not stated)
* Hospitalized 10/28/1862 (place not stated) (With lumbago)
* Returned 11/28/1862 (place not stated)
* On rolls 12/31/1862 (place not stated)
* Issued clothing 3/15/1864 (place not stated)
* Issued clothing 4/15/1864 (place not stated)
* POW 8/19/1864 Weldon Railroad, VA
* Exchanged 9/18/1864 (place not stated)
* Hospitalized 9/22/1864 Chimborazo Hospl, Richmond, VA (With dysentery)
* Furloughed 9/26/1864 (place not stated) (For 40 days)
* Returned 11/18/1864 (place not stated)
* On rolls 1/1/1865 (place not stated)
* Confined 4/10/1865 Libby Prison, Richmond, VA (On list as deserter, no further record)

Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- The Virginia Regimental Histories Series

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Edmund Dillard, Private, (3rd) Company H, 47th Regiment Virginia Infantry, enlisted March 20, 1862 at Fredericksburg for 3 years or the war, $50 bounty paid, admitted General Hospital Camp Winder, Richmond, Va. October 28, 1862, Lumbago, returned to duty November 1862, captured at Weldon RR August 19, 1864, sent to Point Lookout, Md. prison, paroled and transferred to Aiken’s Landing, Va. September 18, 1864, for exchange, admitted Chimbarazo Hospital, Richmond, Va. September 23, 1864, Dysentery, Ch., signed for an issue of clothing September 28 with his mark ‘X’, furloughed for 40 days September 30, 1864, paroled prisoner returned from furlough November 18, 1864, prisoner at US Military Prison (Libby), Richmond, Va., April 10, 1865, labeled Deserter

Note, many Yankee documents record Confederate prisoners as deserters

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Virginia