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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John F. Moss

(1837 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A farmer in Spartanburg, he enlisted as Private, Company K, 5th South Carolina Infantry on 14 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Thanks to Barry Truluck for details above from his research in his Compiled Service Records (via Fold3) and the Roll 1 for Company K. Further details from family genealogists.

His brothers James Columbus Moss (1836-1906) and George Washington Moss were also in the Company. James survived the war, but George was also killed at Sharpsburg.

He married Francis Elizabeth Chapman (1837-?) in 1858.

Birth

11/17/1837; Spartanburg, SC

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Thomas, John P., and and previous SC Historians of the Confederate Records, Confederate Rolls of South Carolina, Columbia: Historian of Confederate Records, 1898, Company K, Fifth Regiment Infantry [AotW citation 22049]

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