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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Jacob I. Jackson

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A "Daguerrian Artist" (photographer) in Orange County, NC before the War, he enlisted at Fort Macon on 26 June 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 31 August.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. His father Abel filed a claim for his final pay in December 1862.

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Wilson.1 His service from the Roster2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3, also as Jacob J Jackson. His pre-war occupation from J.A. Graham's Descriptive Book of the Orange Guards among his Papers.4

Birth

c. 1839; Orange County, NC

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9964]

2 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966-, Vol. VIII [AotW citation 10029]

4 Graham, James Augustus, and H.M. Wagstaff, editor, The James A. Graham Papers, 1861-1884, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1928, p. 256 [AotW citation 31481]

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