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Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as a Private in Company A, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 at Griffin, GA. He was on furlough from 9 July 1862 to 9 September, when he rejoined his Company.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the leg and wrist in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was on furlough from December 1862 into March 1863 and again from April into June 1863. He was wounded at Winchester, VA on 19 September 1864 and afterward on furlough for disability to at least 10 March 1865. He was back with his unit on 6 April.
References & notes
His service from Henderson,1 as J. Lemuel Rodgers, Jr., and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Sharpsburg wound detail from a casualty list in the Savannah Weekly Republican of 4 October 1862.
Death
Date not known; in TX
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 27719]
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 27720]