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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John L. G. Patterson

(c. 1834 - ?)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 27 year old overseer, he mustered on 27 July 1861 as a Private in Company K of the 16th Mississippi Infantry in Lynchburg, VA.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was in a hospital to at least November 1862, then home on furlough to about March 1863. He was detailed to the Brigade Ambulance Corps as Wagonmaster by August 1863 and to at least February 1864. He was wounded again, by a gunshot to the head in May 1863, probably at Spotsylvania Court House, VA, and was in Richmond, VA hospitals to at least 5 July. Judged disabled, from 30 June 1864 to about February 1865 he was again detailed wagonmaster. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound is on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.

Birth

c. 1834; Wilkinson County, 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 29712]