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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Mitchell J. Fountain

(1836 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as 4th Corporal of Company H, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 at Griffin, GA.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds in a hospital in Unionville (now Uvilla) in Jefferson County, VA (now WV) on 20 November 1862. His father Lewis/Louis filed for his final pay of $165.67 in January 1863.

References & notes

Burial and basic unit information from a list in Confederate Veteran,1 which says he was killed outright at Sharpsburg and buried at Elmwood Cemetery in Shepherdstown, VA (now WV), with service details from his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3; both as M.J. Fountain. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850.

Birth

1836; Wilkinson County, GA

Death

11/20/1862; Uninville, VA; burial in Uvilla, WV

Notes

1 United Confederate Veterans, and United Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of Confederate Veterans, Confederate Veteran Magazine (1893-1932), 1893-01-00, Vol. XIX, pp. 75 - 76 [AotW citation 5080]

2 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 28334]

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