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Confederate (CSV)

Captain

James E. Martin

(? - 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

He was elected Captain of Company I, 2nd Battalion, Mississippi State Troops on 19 August 1861 in Knoxville; his rank to date from 27 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action and afterward missing, presumed "in the hands of the enemy" at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. He was later listed as killed outright at Sharpsburg.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi.

Birth

Date not known in MS

Death

1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 28951]

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