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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Watkins

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Niblett's Bluff, LA as a Private in Company A, 4th Texas Infantry on 18 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September but not at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was listed as a deserter as of 30 March 1863, and a $30 reward was offered. On 1 January 1864 he was on duty and detailed as a scout to Division headquarters. He was still on that detail on the August 1864 muster roll, the last in the file.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3.

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 148-150, 315-316 [AotW citation 1651]

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 26761]

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