Jefferson enlisted as a SGT in A Company 5th Virginia Infantry at Winchester on 18 Apr 1861, the day after Virginia voted for succession. He was commissioned as a 2LT a year later, on 23 Apr 1862. He fought with the unit until captured at Spotsylvania Court House on 10 May 1864. Sent to Morris Island, South Carolina on 15 Aug 1864 then to Fort Pulaski, Georgia (he was one of the "Immortal 600") on 15 Dec 1864 and then to Fort Delaware on 12 Mar 1865. 1LT Funk died there on 26 May 1865 of chronic dysentery. His body was recovered and he now rests forever in the Mount Hebron Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia.
Brother of COL John Henry Stover Funk.
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