James F. Maxcey

(? - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 27th Georgia Infantry

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.

The remainder of the War:
He appears on a parole of POWs, office of the Provost Marshall General, Army of the Potomac 09-27-1862. Admitted to Antietam Gen. Hosp, Smoketown w wounds of breast, leg, arms and back. Died there 10-02-1862. Probably buried originally near the hospital - near the battlefield at Sharpsburg - and reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Burial information from Pruett1.

Death Date: 10/02/1862 Death Place: Sharpsburg, MD Burial Place: 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 4503]

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