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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

J. H. Long

(? - 1862)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Waco, TX as a Private in Company E, 4th Texas Infantry on 13 July 1861. He was appointed Corporal on 20 March 1862 and promoted to Sergeant by August.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3.

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 155-157 [AotW citation 1767]

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 26647]

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