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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James P. Hughes

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 17 year old farmer living with his parents and 2 younger brothers on their small farm at Rockdale in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted on 16 September 1861 in Eastville, AL and mustered as a Private in Company E, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September but was killed at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Alabama database1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, also as James P Hughs, and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1843; Wilkinson County, GA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /civilwar/soldier.cfm?id=97444 [AotW citation 25467]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 32651]

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