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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Madison Blackwell

(1840 - 1908)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Phillips' (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company E, Phillips' Legion Infantry Battalion on 9 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was exchanged on 2 October 1862 and wounded at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862. He was listed as a deserter in Tennessee in November 1863 but back on duty by April 1864. He was wounded again, at Hanover Junction, VA on 27 May 1864. No further military record after 5 November 1864.

After the War

He lived in Oklahoma for "many years."

References & notes

His service from Graham.1 Details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Amelia Ann Wood(s) (1848-1919), who may have been Cherokee, in 1865 and they had at least 10 children by 1887.

Birth

10/22/1840 in GA

Death

04/11/1908; Sulphur, OK; burial in Duke-Nebo Cemetery, Murray County, OK

Notes

1 Graham, Kurt D., Phillips Georgia Legion - Infantry Battalion, first accessed 20 September 2012, <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/RandysTexas/page4.html>, Source page: /CoE.html [AotW citation 21918]

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