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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Oscar Felps

(? - 1862)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as a Private in Company F, First Texas Infantry on 26 April 1862 at Woodville.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the "White House" hospital on the Line farm at Sharpsburg, but died there of wounds between 17 and 29 September. He was buried nearby, but his current resting place is unknown.

References & notes

Service information from Davis,1 who has him as O. Phelps, Simpson,2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Hospital detail from a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862, as J. Phelps.

Death

09/00/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, Pg. 142 [AotW citation 1485]

2 Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 46 [AotW citation 20930]

3 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 30052]

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