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Confederate (CSV)

Private

R. Gritten

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He was a Private in Company F, 6th South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was probably killed or mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.

The rest of the War

Originally buried in "Mrs. Kennedy's little orchard opposite her house" on the battlefield at Sharpsburg. Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett.1 He's not found in service records for the 6th South Carolina Infantry. No Gritten is found for any Confederate unit under that spelling.

Death

Date not known; 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 4704]

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