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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph F. Rudder

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He mustered as Private in Company E, First Texas Infantry on 6 June 1861 in New Orleans.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by gunshot to the left thigh and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD from 15 October to 8 November 1862 then sent to Baltimore. No further military record.

References & notes

Service information from Simpson.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 which has him as J.F. Rudd.

Notes

1 Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 42 [AotW citation 20921]

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 #1.078 [AotW citation 20974]

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