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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John C. B. Summerlin

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Florida

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th Florida Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 18, he enlisted at Monticello, FL on 2 April 1861 and mustered on 19 April as a Private in Company I, First Florida Infantry for 1 years' service. He mustered out with them on 6 April 1862, but almost immediately reenlisted and mustered as a Private in Company E, 5th Florida Infantry on 26 April in Madison County, FL.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from the Biographical Rosters 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1843

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Hartman, David W., and David Coles, compilers, Biographical Rosters of Florida's Confederate and Union Soldiers, 1861-1865, 6 volumes, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1995 [AotW citation 33069]

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 33070]

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