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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John Prentice Ford

(1840 - 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old living with his parents and younger siblings on the family farm in Copiah County, MS. He enlisted on 20 April 1861 at Westville, MS and mustered as a Private in Company B, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 29 May 1861 in Corinth, MS. He transferred to Company C on 19 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 1 December (or 7 December) 1862 in CS Army General Hospital #1 in Lynchburg, VA.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound 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 gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as "T.P.F."

Birth

01/27/1840 in MS

Death

12/01/1862; Lynchburg, VA; burial in Old City Cemetery, Lynchburg, 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 29626]

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