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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Wylie

(c. 1831 - ?)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 30, he enlisted on 10 May at Port Gibson and mustered as a Private in Company G, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 31 May 1861 in Corinth. He was 5th Sergeant from 31 July to 31 August 1861, then reverted to Private. He was appointed 4th Sergeant on 22 December 1861 but again reduced to Private on 26 April 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 30 September 1862. He was on wounded furlough and transferred to Captain G.V. Moody's Madison (Louisiana) Artillery to date from 28 September 1862, but there is no record of his service with them.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound also in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.

Birth

c. 1831

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 29677]

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