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Confederate (CSV)

Private

G. Paul Burce

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: Louisiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th Louisiana Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Company G, 6th Louisiana Infantry on June 4th, 1861 at Camp Moore, LA. He was then a 19 year old clerk in New Orleans.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was absent on furlough due to his wounds until December 1862. He was among the 4 officers and 48 men from his Regiment who surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse in April 1865, then being listed in Company E.

References & notes

Basic information from Booth1. His presence at Appomattox from James Gannon's Irish Rebels, Confederate Tigers: The 6th Louisiana Volunteers, 1861-1865 (1998).

Birth

c. 1842

Notes

1   Booth, Andrew B., Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, 3 Volumes, New Orleans: State of Louisiana, 1920, Vol. 2, pg. 181  [AotW citation 13184]