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Confederate (CSV)

Private

J. W. Lemon

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Washington County, TX as a Private in Company H, 4th Texas Infantry on 7 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September, but not at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was listed as a deserter on 15 July 1864.

J. W. Lemon left Company H at Petersburg, but afterward wrote Captain Hunter that he had joined a Virginia cavalry company.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, also as J.W. Lemmon. The quote above from "addenda to the original [Company H] roll on file at Austin" in Unveiling and Dedication of Monument to Hood's Texas Brigade ... (1905).

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 161 - 162 [AotW citation 1883]

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 26912]

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