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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Walter C. Jackson

(1842 - 1862)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He mustered as Private in Company D, First Texas Infantry on 6 June 1861 in New Orleans. He was hospitalized with a fever in April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Davis1 and Simpson.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1842

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Oakridge Cemetery, Marietta, TX

Notes

1   Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, Pg. 142  [AotW citation 1452]

2   Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 35  [AotW citation 20883]