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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 mustered as a Private in Company A, 10th Alabama Infantry on 4 June 1861 in Ashville, AL. 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

His leg was amputated below the knee and he remained absent due to his wound until he was formally retired from service on 14 April 1864.

References & notes

Service from the Alabama Archives.1 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]

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