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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Jeremiah Kersey

"Clem"

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an 18 year old farmer on his parents' small place at Canoochee in Emanuel County, GA. He enlisted on 4 March 1862 at Swainsboro, GA and mustered as a Private in Company H, 48th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He is also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862, which says he was severely wounded in the shoulder. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1842 in GA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19626]

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 31824]

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