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Confederate (CSV)

Private

George S. Jarvis

Home State: Florida

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Florida Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He mustered in to Company B, 8th Florida Infantry on 10 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his chest in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 2 October with a gunshot wound, described as a "Rebel deserter from lines at Antietam." He was "sent South" on 28 November 1862.

References & notes

Service information from the State of Florida,1 which lists him as J.S. Jarvis and says he was killed outright at Sharpsburg. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2

Notes

1 State of Florida, Board of State Institutions, Soldiers of Florida in the Seminole Indian, Civil and Spanish-American Wars, Live Oak (FL): Democrat Print, 1903, pp. 192 - 196 [AotW citation 15499]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #222 [AotW citation 25383]

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