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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John Smith

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Bethlehem Church, VA on 6 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E of the 6th 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 18 September and afterward at the Camden Street hospital in Baltimore to 3 November, then sent to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 8 October, formally exchanged on 10 November, and returned to duty in November or December 1862.

He as promoted to 2nd Corporal on 1 January 1863 and was in a hospital in Richmond, VA with pneumonia from 19 June to 26 July, afterward on furlough to 10 August 1863. He was with his company until surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2

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 34885]

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: #61 [AotW citation 34886]

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