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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Oliver E. Powe

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He mustered as Private, Company B, 13th Mississippi Infantry on 1 April 1861.

On the Campaign

He was probably killed or mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.

The rest of the War

He was originally buried on the field at Sharpsburg near "Mrs. Lucker's" [Locker] barn and probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett,1 who has him as C.E. Powe, no Company. His service from his Compiled Confederate Military Service Record via the Historical Data Systems database.

Death

Date not known; 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 4913]

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