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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Henderson Neely

(1838 - 1920)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company B (later F), 5th South Carolina Infantry, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Boonsboro (Turner's Gap), on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was surrendered with his Company at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

He applied for a Confederate service pension in York County in September 1919.

References & notes

Service from his Compiled Service Records (via the Historical Data Systems database) and the Roll 1 for Company F, as J.H. Neely. His parole at Appomattox from an online list posted by the National Park Service. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah H. Robinson (1832-1887) in 1860.

Birth

09/21/1838

Death

02/20/1920; Clover, SC; burial in Woodside Cemetery, Clover, York County, SC

Notes

1   Thomas, John P., and and previous SC Historians of the Confederate Records, Confederate Rolls of South Carolina, Columbia: Historian of Confederate Records, 1898, Company F, Fifth Regiment Infantry  [AotW citation 22056]