J. L. Russell

Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 15th North Carolina Infantry

In the Antietam Campaign:
Mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The remainder of the War:
Originally buried "close along the fence on west side of woods back of graveyard in Burkettsville [Burkittsviile, Maryland]". Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Burial information from Pruett1. Service data from Moore2.

Death Place: Burkittsville, 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 4945]

2 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 1, pp. 545 - [AotW citation 7471]

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