(? - 1862)
Home State: Louisiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Louisiana Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as Private, Company D, 7th Louisiana Infantry 0n 7 June 1861 at Camp Moore, LA.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, and reported as not heard from afterward.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds on 6 November 1862, probably in Frederick, MD. Originally buried "on west side of and in the cemetery at Frederick." Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Burial information from Pruett1, who has him as John Leyden. Further detail from Booth2, who says he was also listed as John Lighten. He is also recorded among the Confederate soldiers buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, MD (source of his date of death), with two gravestones, and he may still be there. Mt Olivet also has his name as John Liden.
Death
11/06/1862; 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 4808]
2 Booth, Andrew B., Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, 3 Volumes, New Orleans: State of Louisiana, 1920, Vol. 3, Book 1, Part 2, pg. 757 [AotW citation 13099]