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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Jesse Willis Guy

(1841 - 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 19 year old planter living with his parents, maternal grandparents, and 4 younger siblings on the family place at Holmesville in Pike County, MS. He enlisted as a Private in Company E, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 24 or 27 July 1861 in Lynchburg, VA.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His death at Sharpsburg also seen in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as G.W. Guy. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave.

His brother Abram was in command of the regiment as senior officer in Maryland in 1862. There were 4 Feltus brothers in Company K of the 16th Mississippi Infantry: Lovick (1831-1904), Abram, Peter, and James Alexander Ventress Feltus (1840-1908).

Birth

02/10/1841; Marion County, MS

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 29577]