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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James M. McCarty

(c. 1844 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 18, from Richmond County, he enlisted at Augusta, GA on 28 February 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 48th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. His wound on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862.

Birth

c. 1844

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 31783]

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 31784]

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