James McC Crow

(1836 - 1922)
Home State: Alabama
Command Billet: Company Officer
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 9th Alabama Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
A bookkeeper before the War, he enlisted in Company D, 9th Alabama Infantry as First Lieutenant in April 1861. He was promoted to Captain on 27 March 1862. He was in action on the Peninsula, and was wounded in action at Gaines Mill on 21 June. He returned to the regiment and was at 2nd Manassas in August.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He relieved Major Williams in command of the Regiment as senior officer when the Major took over the Brigade.

The remainder of the War:
He was appointed Major of the Regiment on 11 September 1863. He commanded the Brigade Sharp Shooters from May 1864 until February 1865, then led the 9th Alabama to the surrender in April 1865 at Appomattox.

After the War:
After the War he was briefly in dry goods, then in "steamboating on the Tennessee River" living at Saltillo, Tennessee until 1884. He was later a Deputy US Marshal in Birmingham, then returned to Florence, working in real estate and running the Florence Hotel. He was living in Florence in 1907 and Jasper, Alabama in 1921.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Service information from the Alabama Archives1. Further personal details from a sketch in Northern Alabama, historical and biographical (Birmingham, AL.: Smith & De Land, 1888), transcribed on USGenWeb by Joy Fisher.

Birth Date: 03/16/1836 Place of Birth: Florence, AL
Burial Place: Florence City Cemetery, Florence, AL

Notes

1 State of Alabama, State Archives, and Dr. Edwin C. Bridges, director, and staff, Alabama Department of Archives & History, Published c.2000, first accessed 08 July 2005, <http://www.archives.state.al.us/index.html>, Source page: /civilwar/index.cfm [AotW citation 1207]

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