State Cemetery, Austin, Travis Co., TX
Photo by Dana Stubbs

A. M. Crossland, Enlisted into the Confederate Army as a private on April 14, 1863 by C. M. Winkler. He was wounded in left arm at the Battle of the Wilderness on May 6, 1864 and in the thigh at Ft Harrison/Chaffin's Farm on  Sept 29, 1864.  These wounds left him disabled.  He was listed as a prisoner of war at Appomattox Courthouse on April 12, 1865, he was 40 years of age.  He lived his last years on earth at the Confederate Home in Austin, Texas. Mr. Crossland died on April 5, 1909 at age 86 and is buried at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Travis Co., Texas.   A. M. Crossland received Confederate Pension #09734.

Information submitted by Norman Stubbs, Commander of J. L. Halbert Camp 359, SCV.

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