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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

John B. Burnett

(c. 1836 - ?)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 25, from the Marion District, he enlisted as Private, Company I, First South Carolina Infantry about 1 March 1861 and was promoted to Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

His leg was amputated and he survived the war.

References & notes

His service from the Roll,1 which says he was wounded at 2nd Manassas, and the index to his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database.

Birth

c. 1836

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, First Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols.  [AotW citation 25012]