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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Nelson Nolle Mixon

(1839 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Education: Emory University, Class of 1859

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

Son of cabinet maker, carriage builder, and builder Elijah H Mixon (1785-1873) he was 22 years old when he enlisted in Covington, GA on 1 August 1861, and he mustered as a Private in Company A of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion on 5 August. He was appointed 4th Sergeant by September 1862.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, notably John Leslie Mixson's Mixon-Mixson Family (3 vols.; 1969-1975) extracted online by Larry Mixson.

Birth

02/04/1839; Oxford, GA

Death

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD

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 33863]

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