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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph McGowan

(? - 1863)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A former Texas Ranger, he enlisted at Anderson in Grimes County, TX as a Private in Company G, 4th Texas Infantry on 10 March 1862, and reported to the regiment on 1 May.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was appointed 4th Corporal on 1 October 1862 and 3rd Corporal by January 1863, but there is no military record later than June 1863; he was killed at Chickamauga, GA on 20 September 1862.

References & notes

His service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, also as Joseph McGowen. His death at Chickamauga and the Ranger detail from Simpson.3 Polley 4 has him as John McCowen.

Death

09/20/1863; Chickamauga, GA

Notes

1 Davis, Charles E., Jr., Three years in the army: The story of the Thirteenth Massachusetts Volunteers ..., Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1894, pp. 159 - 161 [AotW citation 1849]

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 26888]

3 Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 143 [AotW citation 26889]

4 Polley, Joseph Benjamin, Hood's Texas Brigade, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910, pg. 326 [AotW citation 26890]

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