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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John W. Sykes

(c. 1837 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 23 year old farmer in Montgomery County, NC. He was conscripted in Raleigh, NC on 16 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K of the 14th North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Amelia Ann Deaton (1840-1929) in November 1858 and they had 2 sons.

Birth

c. 1837; Guilford County, NC

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, 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 34150]

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