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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John M. Stringfield

(1836 - 1879)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 25 year old farmer in Gonzales, he enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company A, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right elbow at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and was captured there on 5 July. His elbow was resected by a US surgeon and he was sent to the DeCamp US Army hospital in New York Harbor about 17 July. He was paroled there and exchanged, probably in September 1863. He was officially discharged at Houston, TX on a Certificate of Disability dated 5 November 1863.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860.

Birth

03/18/1836 in AR

Death

09/1879; LaSalle County, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 148-150, 315-316 [AotW citation 1648]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 26759]

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