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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

John H. Atkinson

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 23rd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 22, he enlisted as 2nd Corporal, Company D, 23rd South Carolina Infantry on 30 September 1861 in Charleston.

On the Campaign

He was "severely" wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died, probably of wounds, in Winchester, VA before March 1863, when an attorney for his family applied for his final pay.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records with his wound from the casualty list for the 23rd South Carolina (Confederate States Army Casualty Lists and Narrative Reports, RG 109, NARA), both online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1839

Death

1862; Winchester, VA