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Federal (USV)

Private

James Alger

(c. 1840 - 1864)

Home State: Michigan

Branch of Service: Cavalry

Unit: 1st Michigan Cavalry, Company L

Before Antietam

From Armada, age 21, he enlisted as Private, Company L, 1st Michigan Cavalry on 16 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was captured in Maryland, place not given, on about 15 September 1862 and paroled.

The rest of the War

He mustered out at the expiration of his term of service on 22 August 1864, but died on 18 September 1864, place not given.

References & notes

Service from the Record of Service.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave, as James Arge, Corporal, Company E.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

09/18/1864; in MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of Michigan, Office of the Adjutant General, and George H. Brown, Adjutant General; George H. Turner, Asst. AG, compiler, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 46 volumes, Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1904-1915, Vol. 31, pg. 8 [AotW citation 21249]

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