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Confederate (CSV)

Private

J. R. Shirer

(c. 1828 - ?)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 34, from the Orangeburg District, SC, he enlisted there on 1 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore, MD by 12 November He was wounded again, at Chickamauga, GA on 20 September 1863. He was wounded for the third time, by a gunshot to the head about 2 July 1864, place not given. He was furloughed home on 12 July with no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1828; Orangeburg District, SC

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 32265]

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