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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James C. Currenton

(c. 1843 - 1863)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Phillips' (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

Age 18, he enlisted as Private, Company B, Phillips' Legion Infantry Battalion on 11 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was exchanged on 2 October 1862 and returned to duty, but died of chronic bronchitis at Huguenot Springs Hospital on 25 June 1863.

References & notes

His service from Graham.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1843 in GA

Death

06/25/1863; Huguenot Springs, VA; burial in Huguenot Springs Confederate Cemetery, Subletts, VA

Notes

1 Graham, Kurt D., Phillips Georgia Legion - Infantry Battalion, first accessed 20 September 2012, <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/RandysTexas/page4.html>, Source page: /InfCoB.html [AotW citation 21855]

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