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Confederate (CSV)

Private

George S. Pilant

(c. 1843 - 1863)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 18, he enlisted on 21 April 1861 in Woodville, MS and mustered on 27 May 1861 as a Private in Company K of the 16th Mississippi Infantry in Corinth, MS.

On the Campaign

He was listed as missing in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862, but had been captured nearby, at Boonsboro, MD.

The rest of the War

He was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October then sent to Aiken's Landing, VA for exchange. He was declared officially exchanged on 10 November 1862 and returned to his Company. He was appointed 5th Sergeant by April 1863 but was killed at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1843

Death

05/03/1863; Chancellorsville, 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 29716]

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