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Confederate (CSV)

Private

J. J. Dover

(c. 1826 - ?)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Hampton (SC) Legion

Before Sharpsburg

Age 35 (or 25), from Orangeburg, he enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company H, Hampton Legion Infantry on 24 October 1861 at Camp Hampton near Columbia, SC.

On the Campaign

He was captured in Maryland, probably at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was paroled near Sharpsburg on 27 September 1862 when he requested to not to be returned or exchanged back to the Confederacy, and was given permission to "go to and remain in any of the loyal States." He was listed afterward on the Company rolls as "absent unaccounted for," then as of 30 January 1863 as a deserter since 18 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Rolls,1 as D.L. Dover, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1826

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, Roll of Company H, Hampton Legion, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24127]

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 30927]

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