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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Jacob Alexander Blanton

(1829 - 1910)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Phillips' (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company B, Phillips' Legion Infantry Battalion on 19 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the left lung and shoulder and captured in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was exchanged on 17 October 1862 and returned to duty. He was surrendered at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

His service from Graham.1 Details from family genealogists.

Birth

11/05/1829; Rutherford County, NC

Death

1910

Notes

1 Graham, Kurt D., Phillips Georgia Legion - Infantry Battalion, first accessed 20 September 2012, <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/RandysTexas/page4.html>, Source page: /InfCoB.html [AotW citation 21850]

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