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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John Chean

(c. 1834 - 1863)

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 27 year old farmer in Richmond, VA, he enlisted there on 1 (or 19) August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was killed in action at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as John Chenn, and the Archives,2 as John Cheon. It is likely his surname was Cheyne or similar.

Birth

c. 1834 in IRELAND

Death

05/03/1863; Chancellorsville, VA

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 32401]

2 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> [AotW citation 32402]

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