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Confederate (CSV)

Private

J. Foster Miles

(? - 1863)

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 groin in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was killed at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863.

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.

Death

07/02/1863; Gettysburg, PA

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, Pg. 142 [AotW citation 1455]

2 Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 35 [AotW citation 20885]

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