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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

John Harrison McGuffin

(c. 1836 - 1910)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 22nd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted on 10 January 1862 and mustered as a Corporal in Company D, 22nd South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was 3rd Sergeant by September 1863, but was reduced to Private on 24 November 1864. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer at Tugaloo, Oconee County.

References & notes

His service from the Roll 1 and and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1900. His parole at Appomattox from the Park Service List [pdf]. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah Emily Jenkins (1836-19222) in about 1859 and they had 6 children.

Birth

c. 1836; Oconee District, SC

Death

01/08/1910; Oconee County, SC; burial in First Baptist Church Cemetery Westminster, 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 D, 22nd Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24945]

2 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 34254]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #213 [AotW citation 34255]

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