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Since no biography
exists for Douglas Bell in the National
Archives, below is my biography. Entries in blue are references
and my additions
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Douglas Bell was born in
February, 1841 in Norfolk, Va. In 1860, he was a clerk living with
his parents in Norfolk. He joined the Confederate Army April 19,
1861 in Norfolk and was assigned to Company G, 6th Virginia
Infantry. After Norfolk fell, the unit joined the main army around
Richmond and fought from Seven Pines to the end of the war. |
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Bell married Malvina Henry
(1838-1871). He evidently had one child by a second wife, in 1877.
Bell died in Baltimore in 1898, his place of residence and
employment for at least twenty years. A wife and three children
survived him. |
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Only one document has been found
documenting his service as Transportation Agent. He was assigned to
a support position in order to relieve a fit soldier for field duty,
a very common event during the last year of the life of the
Confederate Army. |
| April 19, 1861 |
Enlisted in Norfolk in Co. G,
6th Virginia Infantry Regiment.
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| August 30, 1862 |
Wounded at Battle of Second
Manassas |
| July, 1863 |
Determined unfit for
field service and assigned as a clerk in Raleigh |
| January 26, 1864 |
Assigned to 18th
Virginia Heavy Artillery Battery |
| April 1, 1864 |
Promoted to Sergeant
Major |
| July 16, 1864 |
Was Retired as a
member of the Invalid Corps and assigned to the Quartermaster
Department in Raleigh |
| September 27, 1864 |
Notified Richmond
that 28 boxes of Ordnance stores had been shipped to Richmond
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| November 30, 1864 |
Appointed a Bonded
Agent in the Raleigh Post Quartermaster Office and employed as
Transportation Agent |
| May 1, 1865 |
Paroled at
Greensboro with the Army of Tennessee. Noted as and Agent in the
Quartermaster Department |
| May 3, 1898 |
Obituary
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