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Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as a Private in Company H, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 in Griffin, GA.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the neck and back in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in a hospital in Winchester, VA by 2 October 1862. He was detailed on conscript and recruiting duty at Macon, GA in August 1863. In November 1864 he was in a hospital in Macon with "paralysis of left arm from [gun shot wound] and was in hospitals for wounds to at least February 1865, the latest record in his military file.
References & notes
His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, also as J.P. King. Sharpsburg wound and Winchester hospital details in a letter from Winchester of 2 October published in the Augusta Weekly Constitutionalist of 22 October 1862; thanks to Laura Elliott.
Easily confused with Private E.P. King who died at Elmira, NY in May 1865.
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28394]
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 28395]