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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Franklin Koon

(1837 - 1883)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From the Lexington District, he enlisted as Private, Company I, 15th South Carolina Infantry, about 1 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was wounded again, at Chancellorsville, VA on May 1863.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer in Broad River Township, Lexington County.

References & notes

His service from the Roll,1 as J. Franklin Koon, and the index to his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database, as Franklin Koon. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870 and 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

05/1837; Lexington District, SC

Death

08/28/1883; burial in James Franklin Koon Cemetery, Leesville, SC

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 I, 15th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24881]

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