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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John F. Murray

(c. 1833 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: Troup (GA) Artillery

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 26 year old clerk, possibly in his father's dry goods store, living with his parents and 7 siblings on the their farm at Watkinsville in Clarke County, GA; his father William both a merchant and farmer there. He enlisted in Athens, GA on 24 April 1861 as a Private in the Troup Artillery.

On the Campaign

He was "badly bruised" but not seriously wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was with the battery until he deserted to the enemy, sometime before 16 September 1864. On that date the Provost Marshal General, Defenses North of the Potomac set him to Cincinnati, OH after he took an oath of allegiance to the United States. There is no later military record.

After the War

In 1870 he was unemployed and again living with his parents in Watkinsville.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His slight wound from a list of casualties published in the Athens Southern Banner of 8 October 1862 - from a letter from Captain Carlton to Carlton's parents; thanks to Laura Elliott for transcribing that. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870.

John was the oldest of 8 Murray boys (one younger sister); his brothers Thomas A, Joseph H, and Francis E Murray were also in the Troup Artillery.

Birth

c. 1833 in GA

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 30532]