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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Francis M. Barton

(c. 1845 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 15 year old on his parents' farm at Gibson in Glascock County. He enlisted at Grahamville on 5 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company A, 48th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his knee in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #1 in Richmond, VA on 3 or 4 October and died there of wounds on 7 December 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite was on Findagrave [gone!].

Birth

c. 1845 in GA

Death

12/07/1862; Richmond, VA; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, VA

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 5, pp. 102-103 [AotW citation 19636]

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 31736]

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