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(? - 1862)
Home State: Virginia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 15th Virginia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as a Private in Company A and was appointed 3rd Sergeant, Company E, 15th Virginia Infantry on 23 April 1861.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.
The rest of the War
He was originally buried "in Rev. J. J. Adams town lot, back of the M. E. Graveyard" in the town of Sharpsburg and probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Burial information from Pruett1. Further details and corrections from Adam Zimmerli, whose research sources included the 15th VA Infantry Co. A and Co. E Rosters at the Library of Virginia, and the NPS' Soldiers & Sailors Database.
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD
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 4549]