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(c. 1841 - ?)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 19 year old living with his parents and 5 siblings on their small farm at Wrightsville in Johnson County, GA. He enlisted there on 4 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 48th Georgia Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the chest in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was paroled at Sharpsburg on 27 September 1862, and admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 10 October. He was sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore the next day and on to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange on the 13th. He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #4 in Richmond, VA on 24 October and returned to his company on 2 December 1862. He was captured at Farmville, VA on 6 April 1865 and sent to Point Lookout, MD, where he was released after taking an oath of allegiance on 17 June 1865.
After the War
He may have been a farmer at Tennille in neighboring Washington County, GA by 1870, then with wife Elizabeth and 2 young daughters.
References & notes
His service from Henderson,1 as John Piman, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, as John Pittman. He is on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862 and on the Patient List,3 both as Pittman. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870.
Birth
c. 1841 in GA
1 Hewett, Janet B., editor, The Roster of Confederate Soldiers 1861-1865, 16 Volumes, Wilmington (NC): Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1995-, Vol. 5, p. 153 [AotW citation 31815]
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 31816]
3 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 #838 [AotW citation 31817]