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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Mark Merritt

(c. 1830 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 61st Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Company A as Private - August 27, 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the thigh in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.

The rest of the War

Listed as permanently disabled by his wound, all Company muster rolls after November 1862 show him as absent without leave in Coffee County, GA. The Roll dated Petersburg, Virginia, March 1865, shows him absent.

References & notes

Basic information from Henderson1.

Birth

c. 1830; Coffee County, GA

Death

Date not known

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 6 (posted online by Ray Fincham, Jr.) [AotW citation 13266]

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