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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Jonas R. Cody

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Warren County, age 19, he enlisted as Private in Company B, 48th Georgia Infantry on 15 May 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 1 October 1862. Originally "buried in Dr. Smith's field" on the battlefield at Sharpsburg. Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett1, which lists him in the 18th Georgia Infantry. Service details from Ranger95's Roster2.

Birth

c. 1843

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 Fincham, Jr., Ray, Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry Regimental Histories - Georgia C.S.A., Published c. 2005, <http://www.ranger95.com/civil_war/georgia/index.html>, Source page: /infantry/rosters/48th_inf_regt_rost_b.html [AotW citation 9455]

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