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(1823 - 1905)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted in Bowdon, GA on 30 July 1862 and mustered as 5th Sergeant of Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded in the left thigh and captured in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His leg was amputated, probably at the US Sixth Army Corps field hospital at Burkittsville, MD, and he was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 18 November 1862. He was transferred to Baltimore on 24 December and on to Fortress Monroe, VA on 29 December for exchange and was admitted to a CS hospital in Petersburg, VA on 5 January 1863. He was furloughed home on 17 January 1863 and was on furlough there to at least January 1865, the last record in his military file.
After the War
By 1880 he was a farmer at McAding in Talladega County, AL. He first applied for an Alabama Confederate pension in 1881. In 1900 he was farming in Cleburne County, AL.
References & notes
His service from the Roster,1 his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, as Joseph Nowland, and from Hugh W. Barrow in the roster appended to his book Private James R. Barrow and Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry (1996) [pdf], as James Nolan. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880 & 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Martha Judith Hannah Morris (1835-1864) in November 1860 and they had a daughter Mary Catherine (1863-1927). He married again, Bellzora Williamson (1843-1896) in April 1864 and they had 10 children. He married, thirdly, Margaret S Nall (1862-1936) in September 1898.
Birth
02/05/1823; Morgan County, GA
Death
01/11/1905; Talladega County, AL; burial in Ebenezer Cemetery, Bluff Springs, AL
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19708]
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 33871]
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 #1.417 [AotW citation 24223]