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Submitted: 1/8/15 • Approved: 1/9/15 • Last Updated: 7/24/22 • R80882-G0-S3
CORPORAL CSA
Company H 12 Louisiana Infantry
Civil War Confederate
1835 - 1914
From Louisiana Archives ~ Nelson, John H, Private, Corporal Company H, 12th Louisiana Infantry. Enlisted August 13, 1861, Camp Moore, Louisiana. Present on all Rolls to December, 1862. Roll for March & April, 1863, Absent, left at Port Hudson, Louisiana, sick, April 5, 1863. Roll for May & June, 1863, Absent, left just before the Battle of Baker's Creek, May 16, 1863. Went to Vicksburg. Rolls from July, 1863, to August, 1864, Absent, captured in Battle of Baker's Creek, May 16, 1863: in Yankee prison. Federal Rolls of Prisoners of War, Captured Champion Hills, May 16, 1863. Sent to Memphis, Tennessee, May 25, 1863. Received at Fort Delaware, Delaware, June 15, 1863. Sent to Point Lookout, Maryland, September 20, 1863, Transferred to Elmira, New York, August 18, 1864. Paroled at Elmira, New York, February 25, 1865. Sent to James River for exchange.
Reel: CP1.103 -- Microdex 3 -- Sequence 4
Contributed on 1/8/15 by debbraszymanski
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