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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James McNeil

(? - 1862)

Home State: Florida

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Florida Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Company C, 8th Florida Infantry on 10 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot, with fracture, in action, probably at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, and he was captured.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 22 October but died there on 14 November 1862.

References & notes

Burial and basic unit information from the Mt Olivet burial list 1. His original burial from Pruitt.2 The State Roster3 only lists his enlistment date, with no further details. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.4

Death

11/14/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, MD

Notes

1 Farino, Greg, and J. Ronald Pearcey, superintendent, Confederate Soldiers buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 5116]

2 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4851]

3 State of Florida, Board of State Institutions, Soldiers of Florida in the Seminole Indian, Civil and Spanish-American Wars, Live Oak (FL): Democrat Print, 1903, pg. 194 [AotW citation 15492]

4 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #5.291 [AotW citation 25382]

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