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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

John Thomas Dunlap

(1839 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 21 year old farm hand living with his parents and 9 siblings on their farm at Rockford in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 15 July 1861 and mustered as 2nd Corporal of Company C, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was promoted to First Sergeant on 10 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was killed at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives;2 he's seen in both as Dunlap, Sr - to distinguish him from the other, slightly younger John Thomas Dunlap in his company - his first cousin. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

06/06/1839 in AL

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 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 32463]

2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 32464]

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