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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Alva Holliday

(1840 - 1916)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Columbia County 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

Except for a brief period of illness in June 1863, he was with his company to the surrender at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865. He was paroled again, at Augusta, GA on 20 May 1865.

References & notes

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, as James A. Holiday. He is also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

04/16/1840; Warren County, GA

Death

09/14/1916; in GA; burial in Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, 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 32040]

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 32041]

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