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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Jonas R. Cody

(1842 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an 18 year old farmer on his parents' plantation (with 28 slaves) at Warrenton in Warren County, GA. He enlisted there on 15 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 48th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the knee in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September and captured there.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 1 October 1862 probably in the field hospital on Dr Otho Smith's farm and was originally "buried in Dr. Smith's field" near the battlefield at Sharpsburg. His father Robert filed for his final pay in January 1863.

After the War

He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett1, which lists him in the 18th Georgia Infantry. His service from Henderson2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3, also as Jones R Cody. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862, as missing in action. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

04/24/1842; Warren County, GA

Death

10/01/1862; 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 4616]

2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 9455]

3 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 31778]

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