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J.Y. Shitle
(c. 1830 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 30 year old farmer with a small place in Cleveland County, NC. He was conscripted there on 16 August 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company I of the 48th North Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.
The rest of the War
He died in a field hospital on about 20 September 1862. His widow Susannah filed a claim for his final pay of $34.70 in March 1863. It was probably paid in March 1865.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave. His picture from an ambrotype owned by descendant Ray Shytle and published in Greg Mast's State Troops and Volunteers, A Photographic Record of North Carolina's Civil War Soldiers (Volume 1, 1995).
He married Susannah F. Pool (1828-1886) in August 1856 and they had 3 daughters; one, Edith, died on 8 September 1862.
Birth
c. 1830 in NC
Death
09/20/1863; Sharpsburg, MD
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 34530]