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Submitted: 3/26/21 • Approved: 4/5/21 • Last Updated: 4/8/21 • R1367840-G0-S3
Arkansas Confederate
Company C 2nd Arkansas Cavalry
1841 - February 16, 1915
Marriage:
Seth Lewis Burge husband of Silpha Deaton Powell Burge. son of Anderson Burge and Sarah Margaret (Gordon) Burge.
Arkansas Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865
Name: Seth L Burge
Event Type: Military Service
Military Unit Note: First Volunteers
Publication Number:M317
Publication Title: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Arkansas
Content Source:
National Archives Catalog ID:586957
National Archives Catalog Title: Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Confederate Organizations, compiled 1903 - 1927, documenting the period 1861 - 1865
Record Group:109
State: Arkansas
Short Description: NARA M317. Compiled service records of Confederate soldiers from Arkansas units, labeled with each soldier's name, rank, and unit, with links to revealing documents about each soldier.
Roll:0044
Military Unit: First Volunteers
Full Name: Burge, Seth L
Age:[Blank]
Year:1861
Conflict Period: Civil War (Confederate)
Branch: Confederate Army
Served For: United States of America
Original data from: The National Archives
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Independence County Chronicles Vol. 27 No's. 3/4 page 40. Union discharge. Served during Civil War as an Enlisted 27 Oct 1862, Mustered in 20 April 1863 at age 19.
Family story says that Seth had a mule shot out from under him during a battle in Tennessee and that he was pinned under the mule all day by his left leg.
A General Affidavit written and signed by Seth on 26 April 1902 in his pension request Seth states "As to injury of left leg my leg was broken about thirty one years ago by a team running a way with a wagon and caught my leg between the wheel and a tree."
- Dr. Warren Burge, Esq. (#47427057) per website findagrave
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AR death index
Name: Seth L Burge
Death Day: 16
Death Month: Feb
Death Year: 1915
County: Independence
Volume Number: 10
Roll number: 19141923
Certificate Number: 507
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Contributed on 3/26/21 by denise.bratcher63
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