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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John G. Hall

(c. 1823 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 30th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 38, he enlisted in Mecklenburg County, NC on 13 September 1861 and mustered in Wilmington, NC on 8 October as a Private in Company K, 30th North Carolina Infantry. He was often absent, sick in late 1861 and into the Spring of 1862.

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 18 September, a prisoner at Fort Delaware, then transferred on 2 October to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 9 October, sent to the parole camp on 18 October, and officially exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was back in Richmond hospitals at various times from November 1862 into January 1863.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left hand in action on 8 May 1864 and was in hospitals in Richmond and Charlotte, NC to 25 October 1864. He was then on detail in Charlotte 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. 1823

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 34522]

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: #22  [AotW citation 34523]