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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John W. Christian

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 18th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his parents and 3 siblings on their small farm at Conyers in Newton County, GA. He enlisted there on 15 February 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 18th Georgia Infantry.

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 5 October, then transferred for exchange, place not given. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital from 27 October to 4 November 1862. He was afterward with his company through the war until captured at Burkeville, VA on 6 April 1865. He was a prisoner at Newport News, VA until 25 June 1865 when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1843 in GA

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 34201]

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: #396 [AotW citation 34202]

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