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John Poole Sellman

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Name: John Poole Sellman

Affiliation: Confederate

Unit: 1st MD Cav.

Race: White

Place of Birth/Residence: Barnesville, Montgomery County, MD

Enlistment Date: 05/15/1862

Company: A

Rank at End of Service: Private

Notes:

Enlisted in the 1st VA Cav., Co. K in 1861; transferred to 1st MD Cav., Co A in 1862; captured in Loudoun County, VA in 1864; Buried in Old Monocacy Cemetery, Beallsville, MD


Source(s):

Image from U. S. Army Military History Institute; Robert J. Driver, Jr., First and Second Maryland Cavalry, C.S.A. (Charlottesville, VA: Rockbridge Publishing ([an imprint of Howell Press, Inc.], 1999), 308; Daniel D. Hartzler, Marylanders in the Confederacy (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1986), 78; Daniel D. Hartzler, Marylanders in the Confederacy (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1986), 265.

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