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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

James Edwin Bass

(1840 - 1907)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 20, living on his father's farm in Darlington County, he enlisted there as Private, Company F, 8th South Carolina Infantry on 13 April 1861. He was elected 2nd Lieutenant at the reorganization of May 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Captain on 8 October 1863. He was wounded again, at Berryville, VA on 3 September 1864.

After the War

By 1870 he was working his own farm at in Darlington County, and he was still there in 1900.

References & notes

His service information from the Rolls,1 as J. Edward Bass and Brasington's Roster.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah Ann Bell (1843-1919) in April 1865 and they had 8 children.

Birth

10/11/1840; Darlington, SC

Death

02/15/1907; Swift Creek, Darlington County, SC; burial in Swift Creek Cemetery, Darlington, SC

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 F, 8th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24314]

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: /8scvicof.html [AotW citation 24315]

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