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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

John D. Owen

(? - 1864)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Athens, TX as a Private in Company K, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861 and was appointed 3rd Sergeant on 1 September 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was 2nd Sergeant by the end of 1862. He was killed at Cold Harbor, VA on 2 June 1864.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3.

Death

06/02/1864; Cold Harbor, VA

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 164 - 165 [AotW citation 1929]

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 26941]

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