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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

J. M. Roberts

(? - 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 21st Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enrolled about 1 June 1861 in Company C, 21st Mississippi Infantry and was appointed 2nd Lieutenant, date not known.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.

The rest of the War

He was originally buried "in Col. Miller's woods, west of church along the line fence between Miller and Mrs. Lucker [Locker]" on the battlefield at Sharpsburg [map].

After the War

He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett.1. His service from his Compiled Service Records.

Death

09/17/1862; 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 4932]

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