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Confederate (CSV)

Captain

James H. Dunlap

(? - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From the Laurens District, he enrolled as First Lieutenant, Company F, 14th South Carolina Infantry about 1 September 1861. He was promoted to Captain on 30 June 1862 at the death of Captain Robert Owens.

On the Campaign

In action at Boteler's Ford near Shepherdstown on 20 September 1862 ...

among the killed being the brave, generous, and efficient Captain James H. Dunlap, of Laurens, S. C., who was blown to pieces by a shell.

References & notes

His service from the Roll 1 and the index to his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database. The quote above from Colonel McGowan's Official Report.

Death

09/20/1862; Shepherdstown, VA

Notes

1   Thomas, John P., and and previous SC Historians of the Confederate Records, Confederate Rolls of South Carolina, Columbia: Historian of Confederate Records, 1898, Roll of Company F, 14th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols.  [AotW citation 24803]