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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James T. Sullivan

(? - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: Grimes' Portsmouth (VA) Battery

Before Sharpsburg

On 20 April 1861, in Columbus, GA, he mustered as Private in the Columbus Light Guard, later part of the 2nd Independent Georgia Infantry. In the Spring of 1862 he transferred to the Portsmouth Light Artillery.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, and died of wounds the next day on the J. H. Grove Farm.

References & notes

Basic information from the Virginia Military Dead.1 Service and other details from R. Thomas Crew's Grimes' Battery, Grandy's Battery and Huger's Battery Virginia Artillery (roster, 1995) via the Historical Data Systems database.

Death

09/18/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1   Library of Virginia, Virginia Military Dead Database, Published 2002, first accessed 30 November 2012, <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/vmd/>, Source page: /vmd_Search.asp  [AotW citation 19029]