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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Jesse Green Blackwell

(1842 - 1910)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Phillips' (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company E, Phillips' Legion Infantry Battalion on 9 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was exchanged on 2 October 1862. He was 3rd Corporal by February and 5th Sergeant by October 1863. He was furloughed home in April 1864 and afterwards listed as absent without leave.

References & notes

His service from Graham.1 Details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Victoria Nora A. Shaw (1861-1945) in 1879 and they had 4 children.

Birth

10/02/1842; Lumpkin County, GA

Death

04/21/1910; Eastland County, TX; burial in Alameda Cemetery, Ranger, TX

Notes

1 Graham, Kurt D., Phillips Georgia Legion - Infantry Battalion, first accessed 20 September 2012, <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/RandysTexas/page4.html>, Source page: /CoE.html [AotW citation 21919]

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