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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Walter Sweatt

(1831 - 1902)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 29 year old farmer at Fayetteville, GA. He enlisted as a Private in Company F, 13th Georgia Infantry on 10 May 1862 in Savannah, GA.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was on wounded furlough to 19 October 1862. He was appointed Corporal in 1864, severely wounded at Spotsylvania, VA on 12 May 1864, and on furlough to at least 31 January 1865.

After the War

By 1880 he was a peddler in Girard, AL. In 1900 he was a farmer in Columbus, GA.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from Henderson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His 60953221 is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth Anne Morris (1834-1923) in March 1854 and they had at least 7 children.

Birth

01/07/1831; Zebulon, GA

Death

06/02/1902; Columbus, GA; burial in Girard Cemetery, Girard, AL

Notes

1 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 28594]

2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28595]

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