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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

John Wesley Ulmer

(c. 1835 - 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 25 year old farmer living with 5 younger siblings at Holt in Jasper County, MS. He enlisted on 27 April 1861 at Paulding, Jasper County, MS and mustered as a Private in Company F, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 31 May 1861 in Corinth. He was appointed 2nd Corporal on 1 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was originally listed as missing in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862, but later as presumed killed there, with no later military record.

The rest of the War

His brother James Madison Ulmer (1836-1873) applied for his final pay of $81.36 in March 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg status also in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 and 1860.

Birth

c. 1835 in 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 29673]