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(1840 - 1862)
Home State: Virginia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 37th Virginia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted and mustered as Private, Company C, 37th Virginia Infantry on 7 March 1862 in Lebanon, VA. He was wounded in July 1862, place not given.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the leg on 17 September 1862 in action at Sharpsburg, his leg was amputated, and was captured there on the 19th.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds and typhoid fever at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 9 November 1862. He was originally buried "on west side of and in the [Mt. Olivet] cemetery at Frederick." Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Burial information from Pruett1. Service from Rankin2 via the Historical Data Systems database. His Sharpsburg wound detail from a casualty list in the Abingdon Virginian of 3 October 1862 online from the Library of Congress. He is also listed among the Confederate soldiers buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, MD and has memorials there (via Findagrave).
Birth
06/20/1840; Russell County, VA
Death
11/09/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD
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 4720]
2 Rankin, Thomas M., 37th Virginia Infantry, Lynchburg: H.E. Howard, Inc., 1987 [AotW citation 21764]