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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

J. C. Baker

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 11th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in the 11th Mississippi Infantry and was appointed Sergeant, Company and date not given.

On the Campaign

He was probably killed or mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.

The rest of the War

Originally buried "in Benj. Grave's [Grove] young orchard on left hand side of road to Shepherdstown" near the battlefield at Sharpsburg and was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett.1 His service from the index to his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems.

Death

Date not known; 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 4548]

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