Nathan Sweat

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59835813/nathan-newbern-sweat

Suggested edit: Mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland on 17 September 1862. Evacuated to Confederate military hospital, where he died on 30 December 1862.
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Suggested edit: This situation is quite the mystery. This individual is referred to as both Nathan Newborn Sweat and Nathan Franklin Sweat III. It is generally agreed this is the son of Nathaniel Franklin Sweat Jr. and Charity Newborn of Ware County, Georgia.

The official Civil War records refer to him as Nathan F. Sweat and they indicate he was wounded at the Battle of Antietam (September 17, 1862) and taken to a Confederate Military Hospital in Richmond, Virginia. He is said to have died there on December 30, 1862.

It can be said with 100% certainty that he is not buried in the Antietam National Cemetery. It is clear he survived the battle and made it back into Virginia. Most importantly, there are no Confederate soldiers buried there -- it was for Union soldiers only.

There is also a headstone in Hephzibah Baptist Church Cemetery in Ware County, Georgia that says he is buried there and that he died in 1866. Census records also indicate he may have fathered a child born in 1865.

The war records only say it "appears" he died in Richmond. I am inclined to believe that Nathan survived his wounds, returned home to Georgia and died there in 1866.