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(1827 - 1862)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He moved to Alabama from Georgia in about 1859. On 24 April 1862, a married farmer in Chulafinnee, AL he enlisted at Arbacoochee as Private, Company I, 44th Alabama Infantry. He was in action with his Company at 2nd Manassas on 30 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the thigh and arm and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of his wounds in a field hospital on or near the battlefield on 24 September 1862.
After the War
His widow Anna filed for his final pay of $33.00 in March 1863, and was finally paid in June 1864.
References & notes
His service from the Alabama database1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Death detail also in a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862. His memorial is on Findagrave. Thanks to family historian Vince King for information about James and his brother William.
He married Anna Melissa Watts (1832-1864) in 1847 and they had 8 children; the last, Alpheus, was born in June 1862 (d. 1924) in Lumpkin County, GA. James' brother William Rutherford Lusk, Company F, 60th Georgia Infantry, was killed at Sharpsburg.
Birth
12/26/1827; Jackson County, GA
Death
09/24/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /civilwar/soldier.cfm?id=122930 [AotW citation 21213]
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 31704]