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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John F. Kent

(c. 1835 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 27 year old farmer in Butler County, AL, he enlisted on 7 July 1861 at Greenville, AL (or 19 July 1861 at Montgomery) and mustered as a Private in Company G of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was back with his unit by December 1862. He died of typhoid pneumonia in a hospital in Richmond, VA on 5 June 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brother Anson, also in Company G, was with him on South Mountain.

Birth

c. 1835 in AL

Death

06/05/1863; Richmond, VA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, 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 32702]

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 32703]

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