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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James P. Vansant

(c. 1839 - 1864)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 22, he enlisted on 4 May 1861 in Raleigh, MS, and mustered as a Private in Company H, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 1 June 1861 in Corinth.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 27 October 1862 and was away from his Company, in hospitals wounded or sick, to about October 1863. He was killed while on picket duty on 18 October 1864, place not given.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as J.P. Vanzant. His Sharpsburg wound in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.

Birth

c. 1839

Death

10/18/1864

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 29684]

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