James Hamilton Capers

Age 26, he enlisted on 3 March 1861 with a commission as brevet 2nd Lieutenant in the Provisional Army, and mustered as 2nd Sergeant of Company H, 12th Mississippi Infantry on 8 May 1861 in Corinth, MS. He was soon after appointed Sergeant Major of the regiment and was commissioned First Lieutenant and Adjutant on 21 May 1862.

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

He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 30 September 1862. He tendered his resignation on 7 April 1863 but was detached as Assistant Provost Marshal on 29 May 1863. He resigned again 9 January 1864, but his "orders were revoked" on 9 February, and he was retired to the Invalid Corps on 15 April 1864. He was surrendered at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1882 he was a merchandise broker in Richmond, VA. He became a member of the Richmond school board in 1889 and was chairman from 1902 to his death in 1907.

His service from his Compiled Confederate Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His wounding at Sharpsburg from a casualty list on the front page of the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Details from the Annual Message (1909) of the Mayor of Richmond and the 1882 Richmond City Directory. His memorial is on Findagrave.

12/04/1834 in SC

10/28/1907; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA