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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

John H. Allen

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Henrico County, VA, he enlisted on 22 April 1861 at Camp Hill and mustered as a Private in Company G, 15th Virginia Infantry. He was elected Jr 2nd Lieutenant at the army reorganization on 25 April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left lung "implicating the pericardium" in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was disabled for field service and absent from his regiment until retired my a medical board to the Invalid Corps in November 1864 due to endocarditis (infection of heart lining). He had been promoted to Senior 2nd Lieutenant on 25 January 1863. He was at Camp Lee in Richmond on 7 April 1865.

References & notes

His service basics from Manarin1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Medical details from the MSHWR.3

Notes

1 Manarin, Louis H., 15th Virginia Infantry, Lynchburg: H. E. Howard, Inc., 1990 [AotW citation 31523]

2 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 31524]

3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 533 [AotW citation 31525]

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