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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John Davis

(c. 1821 - ?)

Home State: Louisiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 10th Louisiana Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 40 year old moulder, he enlisted at Camp Moore, LA on 22 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 10th Louisiana Infantry. He was ill with chronic diarrhea from December 1861 into February 1862, and in a Richmond, VA hospital with dysentery from 13 July to 20 August.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 6 October and was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was in a Danville, VA hospital into May 1863 and furloughed home for 60 days, with no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2

Birth

c. 1821

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 34082]

2   National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #139  [AotW citation 34083]