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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

John B. McGuire

(c. 1834 - 1862)

Home State: Louisiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Louisiana Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted on 7 June 1861, at Camp Moore, LA, in Company D, 7th Louisiana Infantry. He was a laborer in New Orleans, age 27 when enlisted.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Basic information from Booth1. Present on all Rolls to Feb., 1862. Rolls Jan., 1863, to April, 1863, Absent, wounded at Sharpsburg, Sept. 17, 1862, whereabouts unknown. Record copied from Memorial Hall, New Orleans, La., by the War Dept., Washington, D. C., May, 1903, Born La., occupation , killed Sept. 17, 1863.

Birth

c. 1834 in LA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1   Booth, Andrew B., Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, 3 Volumes, New Orleans: State of Louisiana, 1920, Vol. 3, Book 1, pg. 1207  [AotW citation 14981]