Joshua Lane

(? - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He was in Company F.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was mortally wounded in the side in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.

The remainder of the War:
He died of wounds on 27 November in Frederick, MD. Originally buried "on west side of and in the cemetery at Frederick." Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Burial information from Pruett1. Wounding information from Wilson2. He is also listed among the Confederate soldiers buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, MD (source of his date of death), and may still be there.

Death Date: 11/27/1862 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 4795]

2 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9911]

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