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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

John Thomas Dunlap

(1840 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 20 year old farmer living with his parents and siblings on their place at Equality near Nixburg in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was promoted to Corporal 10 July 1862.

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 promoted to Sergeant on 15 October and was killed at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives;2 he's seen in both as Dunlap, Jr - to distinguish him from the other, slightly older John Thomas Dunlap in his company - his first cousin. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

06/04/1840; Heard County, GA

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 32461]

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 32462]

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