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Confederate (CSV)

Private

J. T. Burke

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 18th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company K, 18th Mississippi Infantry on about 1 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by gunshot to the right side of his groin in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD from 20 to 28 November 1862, and then sent on to Fortress Monroe, VA, probably for exchange.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,1 as J.F. Burke.

Notes

1 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #877 [AotW citation 21382]

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