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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James D. Bishop

(c. 1841 - 1863)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer on his parents' place at Westville in Simpson County, MS. He enlisted on 29 May 1861 at Corinth and mustered as a Private in Company B, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 8 June. He was sick in hospitals in Warrenton, Richmond, and Farmville, VA with catarrh (lung/throat infection) from October 1861 into July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to the right side of his abdomen in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862, and was captured there.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a field hospital at Sharpsburg then admitted on 4 October to the US Army General Hospital at Camp A in Frederick, MD. He was transferred to the National Hospital on Camden Street in Baltimore, MD on 14 March 1863, where the bullet was removed from his intestines. He was paroled in Baltimore on 26 May 1863 and sent south for exchange, with the later assumption that

[t]here is no reason to doubt the ulterior complete recovery of this man, though no further precise information has been obtained concerning him.

He was admitted to a hospital in Petersburg, VA on 31 May and furloughed home on 12 June. He died of his wounds on 5 October 1863 at home in MS.

His father William filed for his final pay in February 1863, believing he'd died at Frederick, MD in November 1862. By then knowing of his son's actual death, he received it in about April 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold 3. Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR 2 and the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

A casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862 has him killed at Sharpsburg.

Birth

c. 1841; Westville, MS

Death

10/05/1863; Simpson County, MS

Notes

1 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 29589]

2 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Part 2, Volume 2, pp. 65-66 [AotW citation 29590]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #527 [AotW citation 18346]

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