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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Jehu Robert Whitted

(1841 - 1916)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 19 year old on his parents' farm at Hillsborough, NC. He enlisted there on 4 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in the Orange Guards - Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the shoulder or side in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

After the War

In 1870 he was a farmer and miller at Hillsborough, NC, probably on his father's place next door. By 1880 and to at least 1910 he worked his own farm there.

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Wilson.1 His service from his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910; he's in some records as John Robert Whitted.

His brothers James and Thomas were also in Company G and wounded at Sharpsburg.

Birth

03/17/1841; Hillsborough, NC

Death

07/07/1916; Hillsborough, NC

Notes

1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9982]

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 31498]

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