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Confederate (CSA)

Private

John R. Harris

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

A 20 year old farmer in Carrollton, GA, he enlisted on 30 July 1861 at Bowdon, GA and mustered as a Private in Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

His father Reuben filed a claim for his son's final pay in February 1863.

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,2 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1841

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

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 33797]

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