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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Jesse Olive

(? - 1862)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Robertson County as a Private in Company C, 4th Texas Infantry on 15 July 1861. He was slightly wounded in the arm at Gaines' Mill, VA on 27 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the thigh in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, "left on the battlefield," and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Stone House field hospital on the Joseph Poffenberger farm north of Sharpsburg, but died there of wounds on 20 September 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Davis,1 who says he was killed outright at Sharpsburg, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. He's also seen as J.J. Oliver, in US records.

Death

09/20/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 152-153 [AotW citation 1717]

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 26633]

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