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Confederate (CSV)

Private

G. W. Hoffler

(? - 1862)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company B, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds, probably in a US field hospital in or near Sharpsburg, date not given. He was probably buried on the field and removed to Elmwood about 1869.

References & notes

Service information from Davis,1 who says he was killed outright at Sharpsburg, and from his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Elmwood Cemetery, Shepherdstown, WV

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 150 - 152 [AotW citation 1675]

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 26614]

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