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Confederate (CSV)

Private

B. K. Bullock

(c. 1834 - ?)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a well-off young man living in Columbus, Lowndes County, MS. He enlisted at Columbus as a Private in Company K, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 1 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His Company (K) was converted to cavalry and attached as Company F to the 8th (Wade's) Confederate Cavalry (2d Regiment, Mississippi and Alabama Cavalry) in January 1863. He transferred to Company G on 1 May and was detailed as a Hospital Steward on 20 May 1863. He was surrendered and paroled at Hillsboro, NC on 3 May 1865.

After the War

By 1870 he was a farm worker at Brookeville in Noxubee County, MS.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry and 8th CS Cavalry. His presence at Sharpsburg from a petition he and others of his Company signed on behalf of Lieutenant Thomas Lipscomb. Personal details from the US Census of 1860 and 1870.

At the 1860 Census he was living in the home of the very wealthy Lucy A Sharp (52) along with an H. Hardy (19). Bullock was still with Sharp and Hardy in 1870. I don't know how/if these people are related.

Birth

c. 1834 in NC

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 28999]