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Kuntz, John, Pvt. New Co. D, 1st Special Battn. (Wheat's) La. is shown as having been wounded in the back at Manassas July 21, 1861, however it couldn’t have been that serious as he was recorded present at the December 31, 1862 muster held at Camp Carondelet, Virginia. I believe his New Company D was also called the Old Dominion Guards. The battalion was disbanded in August, 1862.

I have not been able to locate a possible later service.

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Within months of arriving in Northern Virginia, Wheat's entire five-company battalion began to be called the Louisiana Tigers. The battalion first saw combat during the First Battle of Manassas, where it anchored the left flank on Matthews Hill for several hours until reinforcements arrived.

In early 1862, Wheat's Tigers were assigned Brig. Gen. Richard Taylor's First Louisiana Brigade in the army of Stonewall Jackson. They participated in his 1862 Valley Campaign, proving instrumental in Confederate victories at the battles of Front Royal, Winchester, and Port Republic.

In late spring, Jackson's force was sent eastward to participate in the Peninsula Campaign. Following Wheat's death at the Battle of Gaines' Mill, his battalion was merged with Coppens' Zouaves within the Army of Northern Virginia. The combined unit was heavily depleted during the Northern Virginia Campaign and the subsequent Maryland Campaign, where its leader, Colonel Auguste Gaston Coppens, was killed. The amalgamated battalion was disbanded shortly after the Battle of Antietam and the men dispersed among other units.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9th_Louisiana_Infantry

See also: http://www.historynet.com/1st-louisiana-special-battalion-at-the-first-battle-of-manassas.htm

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