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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Daniel J. Downing

(c. 1836 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 24th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 25, from Cumberland County, he mustered as Private, Company F, 24th North Carolina Infantry on 1 June 1861 in Cumberland County. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 19 April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett1. Service from the Roster 2 via the Historical Data Systems database. His cenotaph in Cedar Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Fayetteville, NC is online from Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1836; Cumberland County, NC

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4445]

2 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966- [AotW citation 19332]

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