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Capt Randle Tscharner Blewett

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Capt Randle Tscharner Blewett

Birth
Columbus, Lowndes County, Mississippi, USA
Death
27 Jun 1862 (aged 32)
Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Burial
Columbus, Lowndes County, Mississippi, USA Add to Map
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Lot 21A
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Company C "Dixie Boys" of Yalobusha County, 2nd Mississippi Battalion,
Featherston's Brigade, Longstreet's Division, 1st Corps, Army of Northern
Virginia, C.S.A.

Residence was not listed.
Enlisted as a Captain (date unknown), he mustered into "C" Co. MS 2nd
Battalion State Troops Infantry. Died in service.

The 2nd Infantry Battalion was organized at Jackson, Mississippi, during
the summer of 1861 with five companies, later increased to six. Ordered
to Virginia, the battalion was assigned to General Garland's and
Featherston's Brigade and in April, 1862 totalled 360 men. It was
prominent in the campaigns of the army from Williamsburg to Sharpsburg.
Then in Novemer, 1862, additional companies joined the unit, and it
became the 48th Mississippi Regiment.

Blewett, Randle Tscharner, (Fr.), planter, McNutt, Miss. 1845, Columbus, Miss.; s. Thomas G. Blewett, Sr., Columbus, Miss, and Regina DeGraf tenreat ; b. Feb. to, 1o29; Probate Judge, Leflore Co.; Capt., Co. C, 2nd Battalion, Miss. Vol., C. S. A.; killed, battle Richmond, Va., May 2, 1862.

29 May 2022
Contributor Jeffry Burden (# 46873454) reports the date of death as 30 June 1862.
Company C "Dixie Boys" of Yalobusha County, 2nd Mississippi Battalion,
Featherston's Brigade, Longstreet's Division, 1st Corps, Army of Northern
Virginia, C.S.A.

Residence was not listed.
Enlisted as a Captain (date unknown), he mustered into "C" Co. MS 2nd
Battalion State Troops Infantry. Died in service.

The 2nd Infantry Battalion was organized at Jackson, Mississippi, during
the summer of 1861 with five companies, later increased to six. Ordered
to Virginia, the battalion was assigned to General Garland's and
Featherston's Brigade and in April, 1862 totalled 360 men. It was
prominent in the campaigns of the army from Williamsburg to Sharpsburg.
Then in Novemer, 1862, additional companies joined the unit, and it
became the 48th Mississippi Regiment.

Blewett, Randle Tscharner, (Fr.), planter, McNutt, Miss. 1845, Columbus, Miss.; s. Thomas G. Blewett, Sr., Columbus, Miss, and Regina DeGraf tenreat ; b. Feb. to, 1o29; Probate Judge, Leflore Co.; Capt., Co. C, 2nd Battalion, Miss. Vol., C. S. A.; killed, battle Richmond, Va., May 2, 1862.

29 May 2022
Contributor Jeffry Burden (# 46873454) reports the date of death as 30 June 1862.

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Aged-32 years old Killed in the battle near Richmond, VA

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Captain Blewett also has a monument at Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, MS.

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