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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John David Swing

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 19 year old living with his parents and older brother Alfred on their small farm at Millers in Davidson County, NC. He enlisted at Lexington, NC on 5 March 1862 and mustered on 15 April at Camp Mangum near Raleigh as a Private in Company B, 48th North Carolina 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 transferred south for exchange. He was with his company to at least December 1864, the latest record in his military file.

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 and the US Census of 1860.

He married Katherine Sullivan and they had 3 children between 1871 and 1879.

Birth

c. 1841; Davidson County, NC

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 34716]

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: #327 [AotW citation 34717]

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