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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Light

(? - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He was a Private in Company I, 16th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded and captured in action at Crampton's Gap on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He appears on a list of wounded prisoners paroled after Crampton's Gap by order of Major General Franklin, 6th Army Corps. He was admitted to a USA field hospital in Burkittsville, MD and died there on 7 October 1862. Probably originally buried in Burkittsville, and reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett.1

Death

10/07/1862; Burkittsville, 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 4501]