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Confederate (CSA)

Corporal

John L. Jones

(? - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted on 30 July 1861 at Bowdon, GA and mustered as a Private in Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry on 30 July 1861. He was appointed First Corporal, date not found.

On the Campaign

He was initially listed as missing, but had been killed in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His father John H Jones filed a claim for his final pay in March 1864.

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.

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 33840]

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