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Confederate (CSV)

Private

E. M. Garner

"Milt"

(? - 1862)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Navarro County as a Private in Company I, 4th Texas Infantry on 17 July 1861. He was wounded in the head at Gaines Mill, VA on 27 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September, but was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. His nickname from James M Polk's The North and South American Review (1914).

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. 163 - 164 [AotW citation 1898]

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 26729]

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