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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John J. Connell

(? - 1863)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 17 year old farm worker on his widowed mother Rachel's place (with 3 slaves) at Reedy Creek in Jefferson County, GA; his grandparents Thomas & Nancy Connell and uncle Jesse Connell (11 slaves) were nearby. He enlisted at Louisville, GA on 4 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 48th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the arm in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds before April 1863, specific date and place not given.

References & notes

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He is on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862, as slightly wounded in the elbow.

Death

1863

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19637]

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 31804]

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