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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Orthowold Truelock

(? - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 50th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Decatur County, he enlisted as Private, Company F, 50th Georgia Infnatry on 13 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD but died there of his wounds on 28 (or 27) September 1862. He was originally buried "on west side of, and in the [Mt. Olivet] cemetery at Frederick" and probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett,1 as Otho Fransch. Service information from Henderson's Roster via Fincham.2.

Death

09/28/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Confederate (CSV)

Private

Orthowold Truelock

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