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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James M. Patten

(? - 1863)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as a Private in Company K, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 in Griffin, GA.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was on furlough to Atlanta, GA to at least 19 November 1862. He was wounded again, in the hand at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862. He died of his wound(s) on 4 January 1863 in General Hospital #20 in Richmond, VA.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as J.M. Pattent and James M Patton, and from Henderson,2 as J.W. Patent. His name spelling from his own signature on a pay record.

Birth

Date not known; Troup County, GA

Death

01/04/1863; Richmond, 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 28551]

2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28552]

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