James Farley

From Providence, he enlisted on 9 September 1861 in Company C, 4th Rhode Island Infantry. He was promoted to Corporal on 12 December 1861.

Lt Colonel Curtis cited the Corporal and others in his Report:

... who rallied, after the regiment was broken, on the left of the Fifty-first Pennsylvania, and continued fighting until all their ammunition was gone, when I ordered them to recross the river to regain the regiment.

He was sick in hospital in Washington, DC November 1862 - January 1863. He was promoted to Sergeant on 1 February 1863. He died of wounds received on picket duty at Petersburg, VA at the Regimental Hospital on 26 July 1864.

Basic information from Dyer1.

07/26/1864; Petersburg, VA