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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Patrick Sullivan

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Jackson, MS on 14 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B (the Jackson Boys), an independent infantry company attached to the 26th Regiment Virginia Volunteers. The became Company A of the 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 16 October 1861.

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 17 September then transferred for exchange. He was back with his company by November 1862.

He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA then furloughed for 30 days on 6 March 1863, and was listed as absent without leave, and later as a deserter, when he hadn't returned by 8 April 1863. There is no later record with the 2nd Battalion.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2

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 34237]

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: #274 [AotW citation 34238]

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