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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Thomas J. Murphy

(? - 1863)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as a Private in Company I, 13th Georgia Infantry on 3 May 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of pneumonia in a Lynchburg, VA hospital on 26 January 1863. His widow Catherine G. Murphy applied for his final pay in April 1863.

References & notes

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, also as Thomas H. Murphy. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

01/26/1863; Lynchburg, VA; burial in Old City Cemetery, Lynchburg, VA

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 7315]

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 28350]

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