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Confederate (CSA)

Private

John L. Holland

(c. 1835 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

Age 26, he enlisted in Waynesboro, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, Cobb's Legion Infantry Battalion in Richmond, VA on 12 August.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left leg in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #3 in Richmond, VA on 6 October and sent home on wounded furlough to 4 November 1862. He was in a hospital in Farmville, VA with an ulcer in his left leg from June into 20 August 1863. He was listed as absent without leave by June 1864 and as absent due to wounds in January 1865. He was surrendered and paroled at Augusta, GA on 19 May 1865.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1835

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 33805]

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