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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John Leonard Ollis

(1845 - 1935)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Burke County, NC in Company E, 6th North Carolina Infantry on 16 August 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was listed as a deserter 23 July 1863 and was captured at Chambersburg, PA 8 August 1864. He was held at Ft. Mifflin, PA until released 2 September 1864 after taking the Oath of Allegiance.

References & notes

Basic information from Iobst1. Details from family genealogists. Thanks to Devan Sommerville for scrubbing through the volume, extracting and transcribing the roster data for AotW.

Birth

1845; Yancey (now Mitchell) County, NC

Death

1935; Walton, GA

Notes

1 Iobst, Richard William, and Louis H. Manarin, Wade Lucas, The Bloody Sixth : the Sixth North Carolina Regiment, Confederate States of America, Raleigh: North Carolina Confederate Centennial Commission, 1965, pp. 355 - 373 [AotW citation 6358]

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