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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Matthew T. Patton

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 18th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Sergeant, Company K, 18th Mississippi Infantry on about 1 May 1861. He was promoted to 2nd and First Lieutenant, dates not given.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was disabled by his Sharpsburg wound.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database. Wound and commission information from Dunbar Rowland's The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi (1908).