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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John P. Fields

(? - 1862)

Home State: Tennessee

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Tennessee Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He mustered as Private, Company A, 14th Tennessee Infantry on 1 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.

The rest of the War

He was originally buried "In Benj. Grave's [Grove's] old orchard", near the battlefield at Sharpsburg and probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett,1 who has him as J.F. Fields. His service from Lindsley2 and the index to his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database.

Death

09/17/1862; 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 4665]

2 Lindsley, John Berrien, The Military Annals of Tennessee. Confederate, Nashville: J.M. Lindsley, 1886, pg. 329 [AotW citation 25419]

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