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Confederate (CSV)

Private

J. L. Wesley Monroe

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 19 year old from the Laurens District, he enlisted in Company D, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion on 1 December 1861 in Columbia, SC. He was sick and on furlough in January and February 1862, but returned to duty in March.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Basic information from Davis1.

Birth

c. 1842

Death

09/14/1862; Fox's Gap, MD

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 16020]

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