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Confederate (CSA)

Private

John W. Gibson

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

A farmer's son, age 24, he enlisted on 23 March 1862 at Bowdon, GA and mustered as a Private in Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry Battalion.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862, with no later record, and was probably killed in action there.

References & notes

His service from Hugh W. Barrow in the roster appended to his book Private James R. Barrow and Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry (1996) [pdf] and his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850.

Birth

c. 1838 in GA

Death

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD

Notes

1 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 27862]

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