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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Ebenezer H. Gatlin

(c. 1841 - 1864)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 19 year old living with his parents and siblings on their farm at Liberty in Amite County, MS. He enrolled on 20 April 1861 at Summit, MS and mustered as 4th Corporal of Company A, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 26 May 1861 in Corinth, MS. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 26 or 27 April 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 27 September 1862. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 1 April 1863 and to Captain on 19 December 1863. He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his left side at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864 and briefly in a hospital in Richmond by 23 May, then furloughed home to Summit, MS. He died of wounds there on 25 or 26 June 1864.

His father James S Gatlin filed for his final pay in October 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound detail from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave; with death on 12 May 1864 and as a Private in the 39th Mississippi Infantry - he is not listed in that regiment's records, and they were not at Spotsylvania.

His brother Thomas J Gatlin was a Private in Company A, but died of disease in Richmond, VA on 6 November 1861. Three other brothers, John B., Zebulon B., and Nathaniel W. Gatlin served in Company H of the 39th Mississippi Infantry.

Birth

c. 1841; Pike County, MS

Death

06/25/1864; Summit, MS

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 29579]