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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James M. Collins

(1833 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 26 year old farmer at Thomson in Columbia County, GA. He enlisted there on 4 March 1862 and mustered on 6 May as a Private in Company K, 48th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was listed as missing in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was detailed as a nurse to Lieutenant Wilson but was back with his company by the end of 1862. He served with them to at least October 1864, the latest record in his military file. He later claimed to have been surrendered at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865, but his is not listed among the known paroles issued there.

References & notes

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He is also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

11/18/1833; Columbia County, GA

Death

Date not known; burial in Thomson City Cemetery, Thomson, GA

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 32038]

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 32039]

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