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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Oliver Perry Richardson

(? - 1864)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company H, 6th Georgia Infantry on 27 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was listed as missing in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was appointed Company Commissary, date not given, and was killed at Ocean Pond (Olustee), FL on 20 February 1864.

References & notes

Service information from Henderson.1 His Sharpsburg status from a casualty list for the Regiment printed in the Southern Recorder (Milledgeville, GA) on 21 October 1862. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

02/20/1864; Ocean Pond, FL; burial in Oak Lawn Cemetery, Lake City, FL