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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John S. Caldwell

(c. 1834 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 26 year old farmer at Flint Hill in Carroll County, GA. He enlisted and mustered in Carroll County on 15 August 1861 as a Private in Company F, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 30 October and died there on 1 December 1862. His widow Elizabeth filed for his final pay in February 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as John S Colwell. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Elizabeth Ann Grow (1834-1890) in January 1855 and they had 3 children by 1860.

Birth

c. 1834 in GA

Death

12/01/1862; Richmond, 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 33729]

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