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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Sylvanus B. Shelton

(1835 - 1884)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 24 year old farmer at Warrenton in Warren County, GA. He enlisted there on 4 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 48th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was severely wounded in the shoulder in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the Camp Wilder Hospital in Richmond, VA on 28 September and sent home on furlough home on 3 (or 7) October 1862 for 35 days. He returned to duty and was with his company to at least October 1864, with no later military record.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer in Warren County, GA.

References & notes

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

02/04/1835 in GA

Death

09/29/1884; burial in Mill Creek Cemetery, Glascock County, GA

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 31774]

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 31775]

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