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Confederate (CSV)

Private

J. M. Mitchell

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Georgetown in Quitman County, GA on 15 April 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company G of the 51st Georgia 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 formally exchanged on 10 November and was admitted to a a hospital in Richmond, VA with pneumonia on 8 January 1863 and furloughed on 6 March. He was admitted to a Macon, GA hospital on 21 January 1864 and returned to duty on the 27th 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 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Easily confused with Private James M Mitchell (1821-1862) of Company F.

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 34852]

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: #275 [AotW citation 34853]

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