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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Jesse Daniel Montgomery

(1834 - 1902)

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 in Columbia County on 4 March 1862 and mustered on 6 May as a Private in Company K, 48th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

His arm was amputated and he was furloughed home on 12 October 1862, and never returned to his company. He was finally discharged for disability on 1 April 1864.

After the War

In 1870 he was again a farmer in Warrenton, GA but by 1880 and to at least 1900 he farmed at Mt. Auburn in McDuffie County, GA.

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. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

11/27/1834 in GA

Death

02/06/1902; McDuffie County, GA; burial in Ivory Family Cemetery, McDuffie 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 32036]

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 32037]

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