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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Daniel P. Grantham

(1840 - 1862)

Home State: Florida

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th Florida Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private in Company G, 5th Florida Infantry on 8 March 1862 in Jefferson County, FL.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was probably treated at a field hospital near Sharpsburg. He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD, on 22 October 1862 but died of wounds there the next day.

References & notes

Service from Soldiers of Florida.1 Further details from Biographical Rosters of Florida's Confederate and Union Soldiers 1861-1865 (via the Historical Data Systems database). Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1840

Death

10/23/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Mt Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, MD

Notes

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. 147 [AotW citation 20018]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #5.233 [AotW citation 20019]

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