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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Gabriel C. Barkley

(c. 1826 - c. 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 34 year old planter with two older brothers at Woodville in Wilkinson County, MS. He enlisted at Woodville 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 leg in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862; date and place of death not given.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1826

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 29711]

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