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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John W. Teal

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 22 year old bookseller, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September with them at Sharpsburg to the 16th, but absent without leave on the 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He rejoined his unit but by June 1863 was under arrest and in Castle Thunder in Richmond, VA, with no later record with the 13th Alabama.

He transferred as a Private to Company C of the 35th Georgia Infantry by December 1863 and was with them to at least June 1864, the last record in his military file.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1839 in TN

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 32954]

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 32955]

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