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(1839 - 1918)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was an 21 year old living with his widowed mother and 2 younger brothers at Bull Swamp in the Orangeburg District, SC. He enlisted at Summerville, SC, on 20 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B (later K), First South Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, his scalp bruised by a piece of shell.
The rest of the War
Except for a brief period of sickness in late 1863, he was with his company to the end of the war and was surrendered and paroled with them at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
By 1880 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer in Willow Township, Orangeburg County, SC.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with Sharpsburg detail from the Memoirs.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Ann "Polly" Gleaton (1843-1887) and they had 6 children between 1874 and 1887; interestingly, both Polly and James's mothers were named Mahala.
Birth
1839; Orangeburg District, SC
Death
1918; burial in Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery, Neeses, SC
1 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 31993]
2 Hagood, James Robert, and Colonel Johnson Hagood, Memoirs of the First South Carolina Regiment of Volunteer Infantry ..., Barnwell: not published, c. 1870, p. 258 [AotW citation 31994]