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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Charles P. Johnson

(c. 1844 - c. 1865)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 17, from the Richland District, he enlisted as Private, Company A, 15th South Carolina Infantry about 1 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded three times in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 22 October with a compound fracture of his leg and was transferred out, for later exchange, on 17 January 1863. He died later in the war.

References & notes

His service from the Roll,1 as Chas. P. Johnston, and the index to his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 which has him in Company G.

Birth

c. 1844

Death

c. 1865

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 A, 15th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24820]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #5.262 [AotW citation 24869]

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