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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William J. Griffith

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 17th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company K, 17th Mississippi Infantry on about 1 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was probably wounded in action and captured at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was briefly at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD from 15 to 16 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database. The hospital detail from the Patient List.1

Notes

1   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 #1.051  [AotW citation 21376]