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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joel M. Hemperly

(1836 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 24 year old farmer living among three other Hemperly farms at Fayetteville, GA. He mustered as a Private in Company E, 27th Georgia Infantry on 9 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 16 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, date not given.

References & notes

Service from the Roster,1 also as Hemplay. Hospital and death information from a burial list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862, as J.M. Hewtelny. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Matilda A Thompson (1836-) in January 1860.

Birth

03/10/1836 in SC

Death

09/00/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Sardis Baptist Church Cemetery, Chattahoochee Hills, GA

Notes

1   Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964  [AotW citation 19500]