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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Guiford C. Fitzpatrick

(c. 1823 - 1863)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 37 year old in Athens, Clarke County, GA. He enlisted there on 5 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by gunshots to his head, right hand, and right thigh in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the US 6th Army Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD, then admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 18 November. He was sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore on 28 November for parole, afterward in a hospital in Petersburg, VA, from which he was furloughed for 60 days on 19 December 1862. He was killed in battle at Knoxville, TN on 29 November 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Wound and hospital details also on the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860; he may have been born Robert Guilford Fitzpatrick.

He married Catherine J Shinn (1826-1904) in May 1842 and they had at least 8 children.

Birth

c. 1823 in GA

Death

11/29/1863; Knoxville, 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 33772]

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 #1.411 [AotW citation 33773]

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