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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John J. Sailers

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 23 year old farmer at Lineville in Clay County, AL, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D of the 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 wounded in the foot at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and returned to duty by October 1863. He was captured at Mine Run, VA on 27 November 1863, held in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC to 3 February 1864, then sent to Point Lookout, MD, where he was exchanged on 10 March 1864. There is no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives,2 as Jno J. Sailors.

Birth

c. 1838 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 32905]

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 32906]

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