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He saw action at Warwick Road, Yorktown, Lees Mill, Ellisons Mills and Mechanicsburg, Virginia. He fought in the Seven Days Battle near Richmond, Virginia in the summer of 1862 and the Second Battle of Bull Run in August of 1862. He was in the Battle of Antietam at Sharpsburg, Maryland in September 1862 and the Baffle of Fredericksburg, Virginia in December 1862. lie saw action in the Chancellorsville Campaign in May of 1863 and Battles of Winchester, Virginia and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in June and July 1863. He fought in the Bristoe Campaign in October 1863 and the Mine Run Campaign in November and December 1863.

Syria Autrey was wounded in the hand in the Mine Run Campaign. He was taken to the hospital in Richmond, Virginia. He developed blood poisoning and he died of his wounds 17 January 1864.

Since Syria Autrey died in Richmond, Virginia and he was not sent home for burial, he was buried in or near Richmond, Virginia. All of the Richmond Cemetery records, which included more than 60,000 names, were searched at the Virginia State Archives and Library. No record was found of Syrias final resting place.

After the war, a friend of Syrias told Absalom Autrey about his sons death. On the night of his death, Syria begged to have his arm amputated but he was refused.⁷

.2.       Martha Ann Mattie Autrey b.9-18-1843 & 12-23-1923 m. on 11-23-

1873 Abraham R. Reed b. 1-26-1842 d. 12-10-1906, son of Jonas Reed

and Susan Dykes. 6 children.

1.         Sarah E. Reed b. ca. 1874.

2.         Susan Adealia Reed b. 1-25-1876 m. 11-18-1897 Virginia Lewis Sealey b. 11-18-1877 d. 10-5-1945. I child.

3.         Spencer R. Reed b.7-1879 m. ca. l898EffieA.--- b.4-1881.

6 children.

4.         Ida Reed b. 3-11-1882 m. 2-2-1901 Leslie D. Jackson b. 2-2-

1880. 1 child.

5.      Abraham Reed b. 10-1884 d. 11-27-1929.

6.         Mitchell B. Reed b. 9-1887.

[3.      Thomas Jefferson Doc Autrey b. 5-14-1845 in Selma, Al. d, 12-21-1924 in Dubach, LA. He m. 1st on 11-23-1873 to Cynthia F. Heard b.

7-30-1848   d. 7-26-1884. 9 children. He m. 2nd 9-23-1885 Mrs. Mollie Oliver Wise b. 11-7-1857 d. 8-17-1955, 4 children. Thomas Jefferson and his first wife Cynthia are buried in Dubach, LA. Mrs. Mollie Wise had 2 children by her 1st husband. All of his children were b. in Dubach, LA.

A few days after his eighteen birthday, Thomas Jefferson Autrey joined the Confederate Army. He enlisted 22 March 1863 at Vienna, Louisiana. He served as a private in Company E, 1welth Louisiana Infantry. his brothers, William Norris and Cornelius also served in Company E. This company served in Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Georgia and North Carolina with General Joseph E. .Iolmston and General John B. Hood. Thomas Jefferson fought in the siege of