James M. Higgins

He enlisted in Woodville, MS on 15 March 1862 as a Private in Company K of the 16th Mississippi Infantry.

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

He was treated at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD, sent Baltimore on 27 October, then transferred to Aiken's Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 4 November then furloughed home on 11 November for 40 days. He was back with his Company in February 1863 but was detailed as clerk to the regimental Quartermaster about May 1863, to the Quartermaster from August to October, then to the Post Commissary at Mt. Carmel, MS by the end of 1863. He was there to at least February 1865, the latest record in his military file. He was paroled at Jackson, MS on 14 May 1865.

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