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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

John Roach

(? - 1862)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Grimes County as a Private in Company G, 4th Texas Infantry on 19 July 1861. He was appointed Corporal on 12 July 1862 and elected 3rd Lieutenant on 2 August.

On the Campaign

Shortly after the battle at Sharpsburg Colonel Carter reported:

Lieutenants [listed] and [John] Roach (of Company G), commanding Company H, were all wounded. Lieutenant Roach was left on the field, and I fear was mortally wounded.

There was no further information about Roach and by January 1863 he was listed killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3.

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 159 - 161 [AotW citation 1860]

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 26706]

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