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Confederate (CSV)

Private

J. W. Johnson

(? - 1864)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Waco as a Private in Company E, 4th Texas Infantry on 13 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September but not at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was appointed Corporal on 1 March 1863 and promoted to Sergeant by January 1864. He was killed at the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864.

References & notes

Service information from Davis,1 as J.W. Johnston, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3.

Death

05/06/1864; the Wilderness, VA

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 155-157 [AotW citation 1763]

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 26860]

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