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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

John A. Mathias

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Phillips' (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

He was enlisted as Private in the Polk Rifles, later Company D, Phillips' Legion Infantry Battalion, on 14 June 1861. He was appointed Sergeant Major of the Battalion on 2 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the foot in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was commissioned First Lieutenant and Adjutant on 12 May 1863. He was captured at Sailor's Creek, VA on 6 April 1865 and held at Johnson's Island, OH until 19 June 1865.

References & notes

His service from Graham.1

Birth

c. 1839

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 21914]