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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Eli W. Johnson

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 21 year old farmer in Davidson County, he mustered as Private, Company I, 14th North Carolina Infantry on 14 May 1861 in Davidson County.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds at a US Army hospital near Sharpsburg on 20 September and was originally buried "In Benj. Grave's [Grove's?] old orchard". Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett,1 who has him as E.W. Johnson, Company not given. Service from the Roster 2 via the Historical Data Systems database.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

09/20/1862; 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 4762]

2 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966- [AotW citation 19192]

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