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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James P. Dunklin

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He mustered as Private in Company D, First Texas Infantry on 6 June 1861 in New Orleans.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was captured at Chickamauga, GA on 19 September 1863 and held at a Federal prison in New Orleans, with no further record.

References & notes

Service information from Davis1 and Simpson.2 Wound detail from a 22 September casualty list by Lt. Col. Work published in the Galveston News of 1 November 1862.

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, Pg. 142 [AotW citation 1450]

2 Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 34 [AotW citation 20882]

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