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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Hezekiah Turner

(c. 1837 - 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 11th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 24 year old mechanic from Oxford, he mustered as Private, Company G, 11th Mississippi Infantry on 26 April 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.

The rest of the War

Originally buried "in Benj. Grave's [Grove] young orchard on left hand side of road to Shepherdstown". Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett1. His service from his Compiled Confederate Military Service Record via the Historical Data Systems database.

Birth

c. 1837 in NC

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 5010]

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