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(1836 - 1862)
Home State: Florida
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 5th Florida Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He was one of 4 sons of wealthy slaveholding planter Absolom DeLaughter, who died when Jasper was 6 years old. His mother Nancy afterward ran the family plantation at Edgefield, SC, then moved to one in Madison County, FL, which Jasper left by about 1858.
At age 23, on 2 April 1861, he enlisted in Monticello, FL and mustered as First Corporal of Company I, First Florida Infantry for one year's service. He was reduced to Private on 19 May and was transferred to Company H on 1 October.
He enlisted again, on 21 April 1862 at Camp Leon, FL, as a substitute, and mustered as a Private in Company D, 5th Florida Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was paroled in Sharpsburg on 27 September, but died there of wounds in a Federal field hospital about 1 October 1862.
References & notes
His service from Soldiers of Florida 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, both of which have him also as James P. DeLaughter, confusing him with his brother James Pickens DeLaughter (1839-1907). Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 & 1860.
He married Sarah Ann "Sallie" Maxwell (1845-) in August 1858 and they had 3 children.
Birth
12/28/1836; Edgefield District, SC
Death
10/01/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 State of Florida, Board of State Institutions, Soldiers of Florida in the Seminole Indian, Civil and Spanish-American Wars, Live Oak (FL): Democrat Print, 1903, pg. 142 [AotW citation 20015]
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 32517]