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Henry Thomas Rich
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Name Henry Thomas Rich
Gender Male
Birth? 1827 North Carolina
Marriage 4 Dec 1847 Orange, North Carolina, United States (Boston Sharpe, bondsman)
to Mary "Polly" Albright
Death? 20 Aug 1905 Alamance County, North Carolina
Burial? Mt Hermon United Methodist Church Cemetery


Civil War Synopsis: North Carolina, 53rd Regiment, Company F - Corporal Born in Alamance County where he resided as a farmer prior to enlisting in Alamance County age 35, 8 March 1862. Mustered in as a sergeant. Reported present in September-October 1862. Left sick at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, in November -December 1862. Returned to duty in January-February 1863. Reduced to ranks on 1 August 1863. Reported absent sick in September-October 1863. Returned to duty in November-December 1863. Promoted to Corporal on 22 December 1863. Detailed for duty as an ordnance guard in April 1864. Reported on detail through February 1865.


RICH, Henry T. died Aug. 20, 1905. aged 78 years in Coble Twsp. former Confederate soldier Burial at Mt. Hermon Gleaner Aug. 24, 1905