John Ross Langford

(1843 - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 10th Georgia Infantry

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

The remainder of the War:
Originally buried "on west side of cemetery at Frederick." Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

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

Birth Date: 07/16/1843 Place of Birth: Columbia County, GA
Death Date: 03/15/1863 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 4798]

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