James T. Cole

(1839 - 1862)
Home State: Virginia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Virginia Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He enlisted 15 July 1861 at Giles Courthouse in Company D, 7th Virginia Infantry.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was mortally wounded in action and captured on South Mountain on 14 September.

The remainder of the War:
He died about 25 September in Boonsboro. Originally buried "at the Disciple church in Boonsboro [Maryland]". Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Burial information from Pruett1. Service detail from Riggs2. He also has a memorial in the CSA Memorial Cemetery, Pulaski, VA.

Place of Birth: Pulaski County, VA
Death Date: 09/25/1862 Death Place: Boonsboro, 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 4617]

2 Riggs, David F., 7th Virginia Infantry, Lynchburg (Va): H. E. Howard, Inc., 1982 [AotW citation 9712]

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