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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Josiah S. Wingate

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 20 year old farmer in Camden, AL, he enlisted there as a Private in Company A, 13th Alabama Infantry on 6 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He survived the combat at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September but was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Federal 6th Army Corps field hospital on the Michael Miller farm at Sharpsburg, but died there of wounds before 2 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Alabama database,1 which says he was killed outright at Sharpsburg. Hospital detail from a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1841 in AL

Death

09/00/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /research/CivilWarSoldier.aspx?id=224130 [AotW citation 30011]

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