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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John F. Koon

(c. 1845 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

About 16 years old, from the Lexington District, he enlisted as Private, Company I, 15th South Carolina Infantry, about 1 September 1861.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from the Roll 1 and the index to his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1845; Lexington District, SC

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 24882]