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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John M. D. Whaley

(? - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as a Private in Company F, 13th Georgia Infantry in July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 14 November 1862 at a CS Army hospital at Mt Jackson, VA.

References & notes

His service from Henderson,1 who has him as D. Whaley and says he was killed outright at Sharpsburg, and from his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

Date not known; Fayette County, GA

Death

11/14/1862; Mount Jackson, VA; burial in Our Soldiers Cemetery, Mount Jackson, VA

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 7269]

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 28276]

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