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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John H. York

(? - c. 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Woodville, MS on 21 April 1861 and mustered on 27 May 1861 as a Private in Company K of the 16th Mississippi Infantry in Corinth, MS.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was thought to be in a hospital in Shepherdstown, VA by November 1862, but by April 1863 presumed to have died of wounds.

References & notes

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

Death

c. 1862

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 29710]

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