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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

J. B. McCauley

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

He had probably served in the 3rd South Carolina Infantry Regiment, and enlisted as a Private in Company F, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion on 30 January 1862 at Columbia, SC. He was promoted to 3rd Corporal on 1 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing in action at Fox's Gap on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He mustered out of service (date not given) as a Corporal in the 8th South Carolina Infantry, which had consolidated with the 3rd Regiment, 3rd Battalion and other SC troops in April 1865.

References & notes

Service information from Davis,1 who has him as J.B. McCawley, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, which has nothing later than August 1862.

Notes

1 Davis, Sam B., A History of the 3rd South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Battalion (James Battalion): 1861-1865 , Wilmington (NC): Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2009, pp. 68-71, Roster [AotW citation 16008]

2 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 27779]

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