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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Edwin Blair

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 10th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 18 year old farmer living with his parents and siblings in Blairville, St. Clair County, AL. He enlisted on 4 June 1861 in Ashville, AL and mustered as a Private in Company A, 10th Alabama Infantry. He was absent sick and on furlough for much of 1862, rejoining his Company in August.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the leg in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

CS Surgeon R.T. Royston, 8th Alabama, amputated his leg below the knee at a field hospital on 18 September. He remained absent due to his wound until he was formally retired from service on 14 April 1864.

References & notes

Service from the Alabama Archives1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Wound and surgical details from the MSHWR.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave; he probably died before 1890.

Birth

c. 1842 in GA

Notes

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=14859 [AotW citation 20075]

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 31680]

3 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, Volume 2, Part 3, p. 495 [AotW citation 31681]

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