A UK Volunteer

[noman]

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=32534517
http://www.acwv.info/1-files-veterans/D/davies-sydney-herbert/davies.htm

 

[tmh10]

Interesting information but I think they need to work on their dates some.


Afterwards Sydney migrated to the United States, leaving Halifax, Nova Scotia in a schooner, running the Union blockade, and arriving in South Carolina; where upon learning of his desire to join the Confederate Army, a Confederate agent induced Sydney to become an agent for the Confederate Government in charge of dispatches, at 38 years of age. Records state that he first served with Walker's Brigade as a volunteer from August 1863 until November 26, 1864; his first engagement being at Chancellorville, Sydney was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg which occurred on July 1–3, 1864 during the famous 'Pickett's Charge' and took part in the "Battle of the Wilderness". Sydney was with the division of Cavalry that marched out of the Valley during the winter of 1864.