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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Atwell E. Campbell

(1819 - 1863)

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 30th Virginia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Chilesburg, VA on 21 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 30th Virginia 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 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 11 October and was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He died of chronic diarrhea in General Hospital #2 in Lynchburg, VA on 11 July 1863.

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.

Birth

08/15/1819; Caroline County, VA

Death

07/11/1863; Lynchburg, VA

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 34538]

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: #298 [AotW citation 34539]

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