John B. Brooks

(? - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 18th Georgia Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He enlisted as Private, Company E, 18th Georgia Infantry on 11 June 1861. Wounded in right hip and captured at Sharpsburg, Maryland September 17, 1862.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was mortally wounded in the right hip and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The remainder of the War:
He was paroled 27 September, admitted to the US Army General Hospital #5 at Frederick, MD on 4 October, and died from wounds on 12 October 1862. He was originally buried "along the west side and in cemetery at Frederick [Maryland]". Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Burial information from Pruett1. Service details from Ranger95's Roster2. He is also listed among the Confederate soldiers buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, MD, and may still be there.

Death Date: 10/12/1862 Death Place: Frederick, MD Burial Place: 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 4584]

2 Fincham, Jr., Ray, Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry Regimental Histories - Georgia C.S.A., Published c. 2005, <http://www.ranger95.com/civil_war/georgia/index.html>, Source page: /infantry/rosters/18th_inf_regt_rost_e.html [AotW citation 9457]

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