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J.T. Knight
(c. 1841 - 1863)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 48th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Going by Thomas, in 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer living with his parents and 5 siblings on their small farm near Guntersville, Marshall County, AL. He enlisted there as a Private in Company E, 48th Alabama Infantry on 31 March 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a piece of shell to his hip in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #2 in Richmond, VA on 5 October. He was transferred to the 3rd Alabama Hospital there on 18 October and to Winder Hospital on 14 November. He was furloughed home for 40 days on 8 December 1862 with no later military record. He probably died as a result of his wound at home later in 1863.
References & notes
His service and personal basics from the State of Alabama,1 which has his birth in Alabama, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Further personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His picture from a photograph of unknown provenance shared on the Alabama Confederate Images Facebook page; thanks to Greyson Beardsley for the pointer to that.
He married Francis Victoria Bentley (1846-1932) in January 1861 and they had a daughter Lula (1864-1945).
Birth
c. 1841 in GA
Death
1863; in AL
1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /research/CivilWarSoldier.aspx?id=112976 [AotW citation 33807]
2 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 33808]