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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Miles

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A farmer in Orange County, he enlisted at age 22 in Company G on 15 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the thigh in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Corporal on 1 November 1863. He was again wounded in action on 5 May 1864 at the Wilderness, VA and hospitalized at Gordonsville, VA. He was transferred [where?] on 9 May 1864 at Lynchburg, VA, with no further record.

References & notes

Basic information from Wilson1. Some detail from the US Park Service's Soldiers and Sailors Database. Service data from the Roster2.

Birth

c. 1839

Notes

1   Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15  [AotW citation 9974]

2   Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966-, Vol. VIII  [AotW citation 10031]