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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

J. P. Gideon

(? - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 26th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as 2nd Sergeant, Company D, 26th Alabama Infantry about December 1861. He was promoted to First Sergeant on 17 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from Fincham's roster,1 sourced from Tod L. Molsworth's O'Neal's 26th Alabama: the Little Regiment that Did (2000). His death also in a casualty list for Rodes' Brigade in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser of 8 October 1862.

Death

09/14/1862; Turner's Gap, MD

Notes

1 Fincham, Jr., Ray, Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry Regimental Histories - Alabama, Published 2005, first accessed 23 August 2020, <https://ranger95.com/civil_war/alabama/index.html>, Source page: /infantry/26ala_inf/26th_ala_inf_roster_d.htm [AotW citation 25514]

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