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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James D. Ritchie

(c. 1835 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 51st Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 25 year old school teacher at Octavia in Early County, GA. He mustered as a Private in Company A, 51st Georgia Infantry on 22 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Roster.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Martha E. Wiley (1840-1925) in December 1855 and they had 3 children.

Birth

c. 1835 in GA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19662]

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