Company D
48th Virginia Regiment


Kilgore Fort House, Copper Creek, Scott Co. Va.
Sketch by Andrew Bond, August 1996

Lewis Dempsey

Rank: 1st Corporal

1860 Census: Born, South Carolina. Laborer, Smyth Co., age 33.

Enlistment: Enlisted Seven Mile Ford, Smyth Co., age 35, 5/18/61.

Present until detailed to apprehend deserters in Smyth Co. 7/17/61 thru 7/18/61. Present in unit 8/3/161. Absent by 10/15/61. On light duty from fall of 1864 to the close of the war according to pension application he filed, age 73, 5/15/1900.


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