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Confederate (CSV)

Private

E. P. King

(? - 1865)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as a Private in Company H, 13th Georgia Infantry, on 8 July 1861 in Griffin, GA.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was on wounded furlough to 24 October 1862. He was captured at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 10 May 1865 and died of chronic diarrhoea at Elmira, NY on 7 May 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and Henderson.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Easily confused with Private E.J.P. King, same Company, who survived the war.

Death

05/07/1865; Elmira, NY; burial in Woodlawn National Cemetery, Elmira, NY

Notes

1 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 28515]

2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28516]

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