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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James R. Gaar

(c. 1845 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 15 year old living with his parents, 7 siblings, and 6 slaves on their farm at Panthersville in DeKalb County, GA. He enlisted in nearby Decatur, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, Cobb's Legion Infantry on 5 August.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by gunshots to his hip and shoulder in action at Crampton's Gap on 14 September and captured there.

The rest of the War

He died at the US 6th Army Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD and was originally buried there. His father Russell filed for his final pay in January 1863.

After the War

He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett,1 who has him as J.R. Garr. His service from the Roster 2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3; both have him as James R. Garr. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1845; Panthersville, GA

Death

10/26/1862; Burkittsville, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4497]

2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19706]

3 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 33783]

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