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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Barney Barger

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 21 year old coach trimmer living with wheelwright John Knott and family at Madison in Morgan County, GA. He enlisted there on 29 July 1861 and mustered on 2 August as a Private in Company G, Cobb's Legion Infantry on 5 August.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was home on wounded furlough to 11 February 1863, then detailed as a harness maker to the CS shops in Augusta, GA to at least August 1864, the last record in his military file.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1839 in MI

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 33668]

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