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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Welch

(c. 1834 - ?)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 28, he enlisted as Private, Company L, First Texas Infantry on 12 April 1862 in Galveston.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in both arms in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was wounded again, in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864. He was paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 12 April 1865.

References & notes

Service information from Davis1 and Simpson.2 Sharpsburg wound detail from a 22 September casualty list by Lt. Col. Work published in the Galveston News of 1 November 1862.

Birth

c. 1834

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pg. 143 [AotW citation 1583]

2 Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 84 [AotW citation 21063]

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