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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

James Carr Hodges

(1839 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 61st Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 21 year old living with his parents and siblings on their small farm at Bengal in Bulloch County, GA. He enlisted in Company D, 61st Georgia Infantry as a Private on 9 September 1861 and was appointed Sergeant on 16 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds in a field hospital on 28 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from Henderson1, who has him as J.C. Hodges, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial, a cenotaph in Brannen Cemetery, Statesboro, GA, is on Findagrave.

Birth

02/04/1839; Bulloch County, GA

Death

09/28/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 6 (posted online by Ray Fincham, Jr.) [AotW citation 13296]

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 29834]

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