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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Philip Batterton

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: Louisiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Louisiana Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 23 year old laborer in New Orleans, he enlisted in Company B, 14th Louisiana Infantry June 3rd, 1861 in New Orleans.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.

The rest of the War

He was originally buried "East of J. C. Grove's warehouse, on hill near a new house" on the battlefield at Sharpsburg and probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Basic information from Booth1. Burial information from Pruett,2 as Philip Bitler.

Birth

c. 1838 in LA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Booth, Andrew B., Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, 3 Volumes, New Orleans: State of Louisiana, 1920, Vol. 1, pg. 140 [AotW citation 13145]

2 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4563]

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