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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

James Andrew Riddle

(1828 - 1905)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

A married 33 year old, he enlisted in Company E, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion on 2 January 1862 at at Columbia, SC. Appointed Corporal 14 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a US General Hospital, Frederick, MD, and paroled 27 September 1862. He was in hospitals in Richmond, VA, returning to duty 30 December 1862, by which time he had been promoted to Sergeant. He was elected 2nd Lieutenant on 20 April 1863 and was paroled at Greensboro, NC on 2 May 1865 as First Lieutenant, Company E, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Regiment (consolidated).

References & notes

His service from Davis,1who says he was captured in action at Fox's Gap on 14 September 1862, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

04/22/1828; Laurens District, SC

Death

05/16/1905; Laurens County, SC; burial in Durbin Creek Baptist Cemetery, Fountain Inn, SC

Notes

1 Davis, Sam B., A History of the 3rd South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Battalion (James Battalion): 1861-1865 , Wilmington (NC): Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2009, pp. 68-71, Roster [AotW citation 16041]

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 34497]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #161 [AotW citation 34498]

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