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Confederate (CSV)

Private

J. M. Railey

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 10th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Enlisted in Co. A, Private - 10 May 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

Died at Lavinia Grove's Farm, Md. Originally buried "in G. Burgan's field along the fence line between Burgan and Mrs. Lucker [Locker]" on the battlefield at Sharpsburg. Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett1. Also see a fine research post from Jim Buchanan at Walking the West Woods.

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 4927]