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Confederate (CSV)

Private

M. H. Cunningham

(? - 1863)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 53rd Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Coweta County, he enlisted as a Private in Company G, 53rd Georgia Infantry on 30 April 1862 at Haralson, GA.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was furloughed home in October 1862, and returned to duty. He died of pneumonia in General Hospital #2 in Lynchburg, VA on 20 August 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online via fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

08/20/1863; Lynchburg, VA; burial in Old City Cemetery, Lynchburg, VA

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 27382]

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 27383]

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