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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James M. Dempsey

(1843 - 1917)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Phillips' (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

Age 18, he enlisted as Private, Company E, Phillips' Legion Infantry Battalion on 19 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the back in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was furloughed home on 13 October 1862 and probably never returned to duty; half of his shoulder blade had been shot away and his right arm was nearly useless.

After the War

He was a resident of the Confederate Soldier's Home of Georgia in Atlanta at the time of his death in 1917.

References & notes

His service from Graham,1 who has his age as 15 at enlistment. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

06/10/1843; Dawson County, GA

Death

01/09/1917; Atlanta, GA; burial in Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, GA

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: /CoE.html  [AotW citation 21920]