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(c. 1834 - 1862)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was 26 year old farmer in Itawamba County, MS. He enlisted at Columbus, MS as a Private in Company K, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 1 May 1862.
On the Campaign
He was "left sick in Maryland" and captured in September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the Capitol US Army General Hospital in Washington, DC on 21 September but died there of typhoid fever on 26 September 1862.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry, as S.B. Guess. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave.
He married Elizabeth Rebecca Tucker (1831-1894) and they had 3 children born between 1857 and 1861.
Birth
c. 1834; Fayette County, AL
Death
09/26/1862; Washington, DC
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 28982]