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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Alexander Hayes

(1841 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 20 year old shoemaker, he enlisted in Hillsborough, NC as a Private in Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 20 April 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his face and eye in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to General Hospital #18 in Richmond, VA on 28 September and furloughed on 6 October 1862. He was detailed as a shoemaker from December 1862 to February 1863. He was sent to a hospital in Goldsboro, NC on 20 February and died there of pneumonia on 4 (or 5) March 1863. His father Thomas filed a claim for his final pay in April 1863.

References & notes

His wounding from Wilson1 with service from his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, also as Hays. Further details from J.A. Graham's Descriptive Book of the Orange Guards among his Papers.3 His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

10/19/1841; Orange County, NC

Death

03/05/1863; Goldsboro, NC; burial in Willow Dale Cemetery, Goldsboro, NC

Notes

1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9972]

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 31470]

3 Graham, James Augustus, and H.M. Wagstaff, editor, The James A. Graham Papers, 1861-1884, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1928, pp. 252-253 [AotW citation 31471]

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