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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Jacob Pinion

(c. 1840 - 1863)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 24th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted on 24 August 1861 in White County, GA, and mustered as a Private in Company C, 24th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right arm and shoulder in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the US Sixth Army Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD then admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp A in Frederick, MD on 16 November. He was sent on to Fortress Monroe, VA by way of Baltimore on 28 November and admitted to the CS General Hospital in Petersburg, VA on 4 December. He was furloughed for 50 days on 19 December 1862 but returned to the Petersburg hospital on 21 February and died there on 17 April 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Additional wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as Jacob Pinyan. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850.

His brother Joseph was also in Company C.

Birth

c. 1840 in GA

Death

04/17/1863; Petersburg, 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 33637]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #1.315 [AotW citation 33638]

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