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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Axam

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 17, he enlisted as Private in Company C, 8th South Carolina Infantry on 1 June 1861 in Cheraw, SC. He was captured, probably at First Manassas and was absent as a prisoner to December 1862. He was in hospitals in Richmond and Danville, VA in May and June 1862 and returned to duty on 22 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on Maryland Heights near Harpers Ferry on 13 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was wounded in the leg and captured at Gettysburg, PA in July 1863 and held at David's Island in New York Harbor until exchanged on 7 September 1863. He was wounded again, at Bean Station, TN on 14 December 1863. He was wounded and captured again on 13 September 1864, probably at Spttsylvania, VA and held at Camp Chase, OH to the end of the war. He was released on 11 June 1865 after taking the oath of allegiance.

References & notes

His service information from the Rolls 1 and the Roster,2 as James Axum.

Birth

c. 1840

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 C, 8th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24256]

2 Brasington, William Albert "Bil", 8th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry (Rosters), Published 2014, first accessed 27 January 2018, <http://www.sciway3.net/sc-csa/carolinas-campaign/8scvi.html>, Source page: /8scvicoc.html [AotW citation 24257]

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