John L. Slaughter

Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Georgia Infantry

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

The remainder of the War:
Died at Line's Farm Hospital, Md. Originally buried "west of George Line's house in his new ground along side of an old white oak tree near his pond and north of the road leading to his house" near the battlefield at Sharpsburg. Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

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

Death Place: Sharpsburg, 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 4966]

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