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Confederate (CSV)

Private

J. E. Melton

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Navarro County, TX as a Musician in Company I, 4th Texas Infantry on 17 July 1861 and was a Private soldier by June 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was a regimental Musician after 1 December 1862. He was captured at Burkeville, VA on 7 April 1865 with no later military record.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Possibly Elijah J Melton (1832-1906), son of the original Captain of the Navarro Rifles, later Company I of the 4th Texas.

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 163 - 164 [AotW citation 1905]

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 26916]

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