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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

J. S. Erwin

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 21st Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Company C, 21st Mississippi Infantry about 1 June 1861 and was appointed Sergeant, 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

He was originally buried in "Euromus Hoffman's field south of barn" on the battlefield at Sharpsburg and probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett,1 as Pvt. J.S. Ervin. Basic service from his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database.

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 4661]

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