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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Jesse S. Goodwin

(c. 1836 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 24 year old farm worker on the Henry Storman farm near Griffin, Spalding County, GA. He enlisted as a Private in Company C, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 in Griffin and was appointed First Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was elected Lieutenant, date not given, but died of wounds and/or pneumonia in Staunton, VA on 22 November 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from Henderson,2 both as J.S. Goodwin. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave, as J.A. Goodwin.

Birth

c. 1836 in GA

Death

11/22/1862; Staunton, VA; burial in Thornrose Cemetery, Staunton, VA

Notes

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 28451]

2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28452]

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