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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Jesse R. Crawford

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 17 year old worker on his father's farm at Calhoun's Mills in the Abbeville District, he enlisted as Private, Company K, 15th South Carolina Infantry, about 1 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds in Winchester, VA on 21 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Roll,1 which says he was killed outright at Fox's Gap, and the index to his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database. Personal details from family genealogist and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1844 in SC

Death

10/21/1862; Winchester, VA; burial in Stonewall Confederate Cemetery, Winchester, VA

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 K, 15th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24890]

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