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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

James A. Adair

(? - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enrolled as 2nd Lieutenant of Company B, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 at Griffin, GA and was "wounded by his own picket while posting guard ... in the left thigh" near Sewell Mountain, VA (now WV) on 26 October 1861. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 2 September 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

His father William H.P. [Head Pearson] Adair applied for his final pay in May 1863, and wrote that James had no wife or children. William had a tavern and probably a tailor shop in Greenville, Meriwether County, GA.

Birth

Date not known; Merriwether County, GA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 7220]

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 27698]

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