J. A. Smith – Private, Confederate States of America Army

Courtesy of Dale Nichols: January 2008:

MUSTER ROLL OF COMPANY H, 16th REGIMENT, GEORGIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, ARMY NORTHERN VIRGINIA, C. S. A., GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA, FLINT HILL GREYS

Smith, J. A. – Private, January 4, 1864. Captured at Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 1, 1864. Died in Lincoln U. S. A. General Hospital at Washington, D. C. June 19,1864. Buried at Arlington, Virginia.

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BURIED AT: SECTION CONF  SITE 19

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