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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

J. T. Barr

(c. 1842 - 1863)

Home State: Florida

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Florida Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted on 14 July 1861 in Jacksonville, FL and mustered as a Private in Company 6, 2nd Florida Infantry. There were re-designated Company D in early 1862. He was promoted to First Corporal on 11 May.

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 about 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November.

He was reported missing in action (or captured) at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 with no later Federal or Confederate military record, and was probably killed there.

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. 1842

Death

07/02/1863; Gettysburg, PA

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 34231]

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: #439 [AotW citation 34232]

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