James G. W. Cartwright

From Bear Bend in Montgomery County, TX, he enlisted there as a Private in Company H, 4th Texas Infantry on 7 May 1861 and was appointed 4th Sergeant by August 1862.

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was reported missing in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, but had been captured.

He was sent from Fort Delaware to Aikens Landing, VA on 2 October for exchange. He was then in Richmond hospitals until returned to duty on 11 November. He was 3rd Sergeant by December 1862 and 2nd Sergeant when he was mortally wounded by a gunshot at the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864. He died of wounds in Lynchburg, VA on 5 June 1864.

Service information from Davis,1 as J.G. Cartwright, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 and 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as J.G.K.C.

His brother Lemuel was also with Company H at Sharpsburg.

c. 1842 in TX

06/05/1864; Lynchburg, VA; burial in Old City Cemetery, Lynchburg, VA