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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joshua C. Morgan

(? - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Greenville, SC on 1 July 1862 as a Private in Company F, Third South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded and in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and left "in the hands of the enemy."

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 27 September but died of wounds at a US field hospital on the Elias Grove farm near Sharpsburg on 6 October 1862. He was originally buried "below Mayer's barn" near the battlefield. His father Meredith Morgan filed for his final pay of $48.70 in November 1863.

After the War

He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett.1 His service from Salley2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3.

Death

10/06/1862; 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 4871]

2 Salley, Alexander S., Jr., editor, Tentative Roster of the Third Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, Confederate States Provisional Army, Columbia: Historical Commission of South Carolina, 1908, pg. 78 [AotW citation 12833]

3 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 30286]

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