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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph Burnett

(1835 - ?)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Sharpshooters

Unit: Palmetto (SC) Sharpshooters

Before Sharpsburg

With his brother James he mustered as Private, Company D, Palmetto Sharpshooters in May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds, place and date not given.

References & notes

His service from the Rolls 1 and his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems. Personal details from family genealogists.

Birth

1835; Spartanburg, SC

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 D, Palmetto SS, South Carolina Vols.  [AotW citation 24163]