J L Bartlett

(? - 1864)
Home State: Unknown
Command Billet: Signaller
Branch of Service: Signals
Unit: Jackson's Command

see his Battle Report

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He had been with Lee as "Signal Officer" at 2nd Manassas before the Antietam Campaign.

The remainder of the War:
He was killed in 1864, but may have been promoted to Signal Sergeant by that time.1

References, Sources, and other notes:
He is identified in the OR, as Captain and Signal Officer, but never held that rank.1

Notes

1 Information that Bartlett was never a Captain in the Confederate Signal Corps but was a particularly capable Private detailed to signal service, killed in 1864, comes in a series of email messages of 25-28 July 2005 from noted authority David W Gaddy to the author. [AotW citation 195]

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