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(1844 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860, probably an orphan, he was a 16 year old laborer living with cooper Bartlet Davis and wife, and his brother Christopher Columbus Beamon (age 6, d. 1925), at Goldsboro in Wayne County, NC. He enlisted there as a Private in Company K, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 10 June 1861. He was elected 4th Sergeant on 22 April 1862, two days before his 18th birthday.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the hip in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds, probably while a prisoner, at Sharpsburg on 21 September 1862.
References & notes
He's listed by Wilson1 as "Benson." His service from the Roster,2 as James Beaman, and his Compiled Service Record via fold3, as Beamon and Beaman. Personal details from the US Census of 1850 & 1860. His memorial in Goldsboro, NC is on Findagrave. Thanks to Brandon Butts for finding his headstone and birthdate.
Birth
04/24/1844
Death
09/21/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 10078]
2 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966- [AotW citation 26073]