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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Littleton Jesse Burdett

(1845 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Company E, 13th Alabama Infantry on 12 July 1861 in Montgomery.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds before 2 October 1862 at the White House field hospital on the Line farm at Sharpsburg, and was originally buried there. His father, J.W. Burdett of Bowden, GA filed a claim for his son's final pay in August 1863.

After the War

He was probably reinterred in Hagerstown, MD in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett.1 His service from his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Hospital and death detail from a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

07/27/1845; Randolph County, AL

Death

11/30/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1   Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010  [AotW citation 4433]

2   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 30072]