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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Oliver J. Head

(c. 1844 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 16 year old farm boy on his parent's place at Fayetteville, Fayette County, GA. He enlisted as a Private in Company I, 13th Georgia Infantry on 9 September 1861 at Griffin, GA.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was on furlough home from 1 November 1862 to 14 March 1863. He was wounded again, on 12 May 1864 at Spotsylvania Court House, VA, in Richmond, VA hospitals to 21 July 1864, then again sent home on furlough with "no probability of his ever being fit for service."

References & notes

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Sharpsburg wound detail from a casualty list in the Savannah Weekly Republican of 4 October 1862, as J. Head. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

His brother James A Head was also in Company I and wounded at Sharpsburg.

Birth

c. 1844 in GA

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28376]

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 28377]

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