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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Calvin S. Owens

(1838 - 1862)

Home State: Florida

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th Florida Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Corporal in Company C, 5th Florida Infantry on 27 February 1862 in Tallahassee, FL.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Sergeant on 1 October 1862 but died of wounds in Winchester, VA on 31 October 1862.

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). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1838; Gadsden County, FL

Death

10/31/1862; Winchester, VA; burial in Stonewall Confederate Cemetery, Winchester, VA

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. 141 [AotW citation 20025]

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