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Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted at Knoxville, MS as a Private in Company I, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 19 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was absent, in hospitals in Danville and Richmond, VA recovering, to at least May 1863, then detailed as a nurse in a Richmond, VA hospital through the rest of 1863. He was deemed unfit for field service due to wounds and detailed to guard duty at the Presidential Mansion in Richmond, VA in January 1864 and was there to the end of 1864. He "came in to be paroled" at Gainesville, FL in May 1865.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry, also as J. Staffin.
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 29034]