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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

James R. Mathews

(c. 1830 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 30 year old farmer with 3 slaves living with brother William (9 slaves), wife Matilda, and 3 small children in Richmond County, GA. His widowed mother Elizabeth was next door (6 more slaves). He mustered in Richmond County as 3rd Corporal of Company I, 48th Georgia Infantry on 4 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his thigh in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His leg was amputated and he died of wounds later in September at the CSA General Hospital in Warrenton, VA.

References & notes

His service from the Roster,1 which lacks death details, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1830 in GA

Death

09/1862; Warrenton, VA; burial in Warrenton Cemetery, Warrenton, VA

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19638]

2 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 32035]

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