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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James McQuade

(c. 1831 - ?)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Hampton (SC) Legion

Before Sharpsburg

Age 30, he mustered as a Private in Company A of the Hampton Legion Infantry on 12 June 1861 in Charleston.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was at Martinsburg, VA on 23 September, listed as "wounded slightly," admitted to the South Carolina Hospital in Richmond, VA hospital on 25 September, then furloughed and discharged under the Alien Law ("never acquired a domicile") on 29 September. He received his final pay on 23 October and was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #3 there on 14 November.

He reenlisted on 1 April 1864 in Columbia, SC, but was listed as a deserter in 1865.

References & notes

His service from the Rolls 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1831

Notes

1 Thomas, John P., and and previous SC Historians of the Confederate Records, Confederate Rolls of South Carolina, Columbia: Historian of Confederate Records, 1898, Roll of Company A, WLI, Hampton Legion, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24097]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 30925]

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