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Pvt Henry Francis M. Albritton

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Pvt Henry Francis M. Albritton

Birth
Snow Hill, Wilcox County, Alabama, USA
Death
7 May 1862 (aged 18)
Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
Burial
Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
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Confederate Lot , Grave 48
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Henry Francis Albritton was born on 27 August 1843 at Snow Hill, Wilcox County Alabama, the son of Allen Albritton and Susannah Ford. Henry enlisted at the age of seventeen or eighteen in a military unit from Wilcox County that subsequently became Company B, 1st Alabama Infantry Regiment. Data on his precise enlistment date and location do not exist, so it is unclear if he spent time manning the batteries at Pensacola, Florida during 1861 and enduring the Union naval bombardments on 23 November 1861 and 1 January 1862. He had joined his unit by early 1862, when officials ordered the Regiment’s one thousand men to Tennessee to man the Confederate fortifications at Island No. 10 on the Mississippi River near New Madrid, arriving on March 12th. The men helped defend the location for the next month against the Union siege and continual bombardment by Union gunboats and mortar rafts. Superior Union military tactics trapped the Confederate Army as it evacuated Island No. 10, with Confederate officials surrendering at Tiptonville, Tennessee on April 7th.

Henry Albritton was officially captured on April 8th at Tiptonville, and the 19th Wisconsin Volunteers took him and his comrades north to Camp Randall, near Madison, Wisconsin, where he arrived on April 24th. Henry Albritton died there on 7 May 1862, cause unknown. His grave is marked in Madison, Dane County Wisconsin, Confederate Lot, Grave #48.
Henry Francis Albritton was born on 27 August 1843 at Snow Hill, Wilcox County Alabama, the son of Allen Albritton and Susannah Ford. Henry enlisted at the age of seventeen or eighteen in a military unit from Wilcox County that subsequently became Company B, 1st Alabama Infantry Regiment. Data on his precise enlistment date and location do not exist, so it is unclear if he spent time manning the batteries at Pensacola, Florida during 1861 and enduring the Union naval bombardments on 23 November 1861 and 1 January 1862. He had joined his unit by early 1862, when officials ordered the Regiment’s one thousand men to Tennessee to man the Confederate fortifications at Island No. 10 on the Mississippi River near New Madrid, arriving on March 12th. The men helped defend the location for the next month against the Union siege and continual bombardment by Union gunboats and mortar rafts. Superior Union military tactics trapped the Confederate Army as it evacuated Island No. 10, with Confederate officials surrendering at Tiptonville, Tennessee on April 7th.

Henry Albritton was officially captured on April 8th at Tiptonville, and the 19th Wisconsin Volunteers took him and his comrades north to Camp Randall, near Madison, Wisconsin, where he arrived on April 24th. Henry Albritton died there on 7 May 1862, cause unknown. His grave is marked in Madison, Dane County Wisconsin, Confederate Lot, Grave #48.

Bio by: Bev

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Confederate Army Prisoner of War - Died at Camp Randall, Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin.

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