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Confederate (CSA)

Private

Marion F. Johnson

(c. 1847 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a successful planter, in 1860 he was a 13 year old living with his parents, 6 siblings, and at least 3 slaves at Bowdon, Carroll County, GA. He enlisted there on 30 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His father William F Johnson filed a claim for his final pay in July 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,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1847 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 33836]

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