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Confederate (CSV)

Private

David Humphrey Posey Barton

(1835 - 1917)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Phillips' (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

Age 26, from Cass (soon renamed Bartow) County, he enlisted as Private, Company D, Phillips' Legion Infantry Battalion on 24 April 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by gunshot to the shoulder (leg?) and captured in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD from 22 October to 13 December, then sent to Baltimore. He was exchanged at City Point, VA on 18 December 1862. He was captured at Sailor's Creek, VA on 6 April 1865 and held at Point Lookout, MD to 24 June 1865.

After the War

He was a farmer in Bartow County, GA to at least 1880.

References & notes

His service from Graham.1 His wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 Details from family genealogists and the US Census (1850-1880). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married twice: to Louisa Jane Blalock (1838-?) in 1856 and Mary Hide (1846-?) in 1868, and had two daughters with each of them.

Birth

03/04/1835 in NC

Death

01/18/1917; burial in West Union Baptist Church Cemetery, Curryville, GA

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: /InfCoD.html [AotW citation 21907]

2 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 #5.266 [AotW citation 21922]

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