John W. McGinnis

He enlisted as a Private in Company H, 6th Georgia State Troops on 21 October 1861 and mustered out in April 1862. He enlisted again, in Newton County, GA as a Private in Company E, 53rd Georgia Infantry on 3 May 1862. He was promoted to 2nd Sergeant sometime after 1 September 1862.

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.

He was in Atlanta, GA in October 1862, probably on a furlough. He was appointed First Sergeant of his Company on 5 June 1863 but was wounded again, by a gunshot through his left lung, on 3 July 1863 at Gettysburg, PA. He was left behind and captured there on 5 July. He was in US Army field hospitals on the field until admitted to the Seminary Hospital in Gettysburg on 6 August 1863, and he died there of wounds on 27 August 1863.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 US National Archives, online via fold3. His memorial is on Findagrave.

08/27/1863; Gettysburg, PA