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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John F. Burney

(c. 1838 - 1863)

Home State: Florida

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th Florida Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Camp Anderson (or Leon) near Tallhassee, FL on 4 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 5th Florida Infantry. He was on sick furlough in July and August.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD on 9 September, left behind, and captured there on the 12th.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 22 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was admitted to CS General Hospital #12 in Richmond, VA on 13 October, sent to the Camp WInder Hospital on 21 October, then on to the Florida Hospital there, where he died of typhoid fever on 5 January 1863.

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. 1838

Death

01/05/1863; Richmond, 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 34800]

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: #354 [AotW citation 34801]

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