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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John A. Jones

(c. 1834 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 27 year old farmer from Buyckville in Coosa County, AL, he enlisted on 15 September 1861 at Yorktown, VA and mustered as a Private in Company C of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

His father Dempsey filed for his final pay of $172.23 in March 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2

Birth

c. 1834; Talladega County, AL

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 32679]

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 32680]

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