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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Joseph T. Allen

(c. 1828 - 1864)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 33 year old wheelwright, he enlisted as a Corporal in Company G, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 in Griffin, GA.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was wounded again, at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862 and by a gunshot to his left thigh on 29 April 1863, plave not given. He was furloughed for 40 days on 5 June 1863. He was either killed outright or mortally wounded and captured at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864.

References & notes

His service from Henderson,1 who has him twice, as J.T. Allen and Joseph S. Allen, and from his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1828

Death

1864

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 7272]

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 28278]

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