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Submitted: 7/31/19 • Approved: 8/3/19 • Last Updated: 8/6/19 • R228544-G0-S3
PRIVATE CSA
Company C 12 Louisiana Infantry
Civil War Confederate
May 15, 1831 - June 22, 1914
From Louisiana Archives ~ Willis, Jacob E, Private Company C, 12th Louisiana Infantry. Enlisted March 8, 1862, Monroe, Louisiana. Rolls May, 1862, to December, 1862, Present. Roll March and April, 1863, Absent, sick, sent to Hospital, Meridian, Mississippi,
April 24, 1863. Roll May and June, 1863, Present. Roll July and August, 1863, Absent, fell out on retreat from Jackson, without leave, July 16. Rolls July, 1863, to December, 1863, Absent without leave since July 16, 1863. Roll May and June, 1864, Absent without leave since July 16, 1863. Now in the Trans-Mississippi Department. Roll July and August, 1864, Absent without leave or authority since July 16, 1863. Now in Louisiana. Roll of Prisoners of War, C S A, Paroled Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865.
Also see Louisiana Confederate Pension applications
Reel CP1.148 -- Microdex 4 -- Sequence 11
Photo courtesy of Cindy Chitty Badon
Contributed on 7/31/19
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