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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

John Tidwell

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 19 year old living with Jesse Isaac Norris, Sr. and his children on their plantation (with 15 slaves) at Marion in Twiggs County, GA. He enlisted there on 10 March 1862 and mustered as 3rd Corporal of Company G, 48th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 with no further military or civil records found; presumed killed.

References & notes

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He is also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862.

Jesse Isaac Norris, Jr was at Sharpsburg with the 6th Georgia Infantry and was captured there.

Birth

c. 1841 in GA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 5, p. 158 [AotW citation 31822]

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 31823]

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