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J.W. Reedy
(c. 1830 - 1863)
Home State: Arkansas
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 3rd Arkansas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
"This company of volunteers, calling themselves the Three Creeks Rifles, was organized at Three Creeks, Union County, Arkansas, June 20, 1861, by Captain John W. Reedy. The company was composed of men from Union county and neighboring Columbia county, Arkansas. It traveled to Lynchburg, Virginia, where it was assigned to the Third Regiment, Arkansas Volunteers, as Company G, July 1861."
On the Campaign
He commanded the Regiment at Sharpsburg as the senior officer present.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Major on 19 January 1863 and was at Gettysburg in July 1863, but was killed in action at Chickamauga, GA on 19 September 1863.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. The quote above and further details from the Company G Roster complied from service records and other data by Bryan R. Howerton on the late Edward G. Gerdes' excellent 3rd Arkansas site. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture from a photograph contributed by Herbert Rickards. Thanks to Jim Buchanan for the pointer to that.
Birth
c. 1830 in AL
Death
09/19/1863; Chickamauga, GA; burial in Confederate Cemetery, Marietta, GA
1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 28542]