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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

John W. Brown

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as a Private in Company B, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 in Griffin, GA. He was probably appointed Sergeant by September 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his hand in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was in a hospital in Charlottesville, VA on 23 September and sent on to Lynchburg on the 24th. He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his left foot at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864. He was furloughed from the Jackson Hospital in Richmond, VA on 23 May but was listed as absent without leave after 31 October 1864 and to 28 February 1865, the latest record in his military file.

References & notes

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Notes

1   Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964  [AotW citation 28406]

1   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 28407]