Henry A. Adkins

  General Notes:

Company E - The Pigg River Grays - This company was formerly Company B, Keen's Battalion, and was enlisted on June 29, 1861.

Henry A Adkins enlisted in Company E, 57th Infantry Regiment Virginia on 01 July 1861. He is listed as on rolls on 15 October 1862 and hospitalized on 29 December 1862 at Richmond, VA (With rheumatism)
He returns to duty on 15 March 1863 (Estimated day) and in Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg where he becomes one of some 12,000 captured Confederates during the 3 day battle.
He is confined at Fort McHenry, MD on 06 July 1863 and moved to Fort Delaware on 12 July 1863.
Henry is reported to have died of disease on 07 August 1863 while a POW at Fort Delaware, DE. He is buried at Finns Point (National Cemetery) in Salem, NJ.

Finns Point served as a burial site for Confederate prisoners of war who died while imprisoned at Fort Delaware. There is a Confederate Monument erected by the U.S. government in 1910 to memorialize Confederate soldiers buried at the cemetery. The 85-foot tall concrete and granite obelisk features bronze tablets listing the names of 2,436 Confederate prisoners of war who died at Fort Delaware during the Civil War. May Henry Adkins rest is peace.