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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Stephen B. Jackson

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He was an unmarried 18 year old farmer from Nixburg, AL when he enlisted on 19 July 1861 at Montgomery, AL and mustered as First Corporal of Company C of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was promoted to 5th Sergeant on 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 wounded by a gunshot to his hand at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and was on furlough to about November 1863. He was admitted to a hospital, sick, on 6 April 1865 and furloughed for 60 days on 8 April. He was surrendered and paroled at Charlotte, NC on 3 May 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2

Birth

c. 1843 in AL

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 32658]

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 32659]

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