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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Francis M. Bearden

(c. 1844 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

Age 17, he enlisted and mustered at Carrollton in Carroll County, GA on 15 August 1861 as a Private in Company F, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

By December 1862 he was home on wounded furlough. He may have been promoted to Sergeant by July 1864, but retired to the Invalid Corps on 1 August 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1844

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 33713]

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