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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John H. Pemberton

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 23, he enlisted on 27 April 1861 at Brookhaven, MS and mustered as a Private in Company H, 12th Mississippi Infantry on 5 May 1861 in Corinth, MS.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He signed a US parole and requested not to be returned to his unit by exchange on 27 September 1862 and was released to "proceed to and remain in any loyal state." There is no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. He was shown as missing at Sharpsburg on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.

Birth

c. 1838

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 29770]

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