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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Martin V. Turner

(c. 1835 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as a Private in Company A, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 at Griffin, GA.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the leg in action at Boteler's Ford near Shepherdstown, VA on 20 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 14 October with "debility" and returned to duty on 28 October (or 19 November) 1862. He was in hospitals again in May 1863, for pneumonia, and in June 1864 for acute diarrhea. He was listed as a deserter on 3 December 1864 and was paroled at Winchester, VA on 19 April 1865.

References & notes

His service from Henderson,1 who says his leg was amputated after Shepherdstown, which seems unlikely given his later record, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1835

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 7217]

2 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 27696]

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