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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John N. Miles

(c. 1828 - 1863)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 31 year old farmer at Bowdon in Carroll County, GA. He enlisted in Calhoun, GA on 1 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company B of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Crampton's Gap on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 11 October and afterward home on furlough to at least November 1862. He was killed in battle at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and his widow's pension applications of 1891 and later. His memorial in Carroll County, GA is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah Elizabeth Copeland (1833-1905) in 1851 and they had 5 children by 1860.

Birth

c. 1828; Carroll County, GA

Death

05/03/1863; Chancellorsville, 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 33862]

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