James Hyley Alewine

A 21 year old farm worker at Diamond Hill, Abbeville District, he enlisted as Private, Company D, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 15 April 1861. He was detailed as a wagoner and teamster into January 1862.

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

He was in hospitals in Richmond to the end of September 1862. He was promoted to 3rd Corporal on 3 July 1863 and served as Color Corporal from about May 1864 to April 1865. He was captured and paroled at Greensboro, NC on 2 May 1865.

He returned to Abbeville but moved his family to Atkins, AR in 1871. He was a farmer there to at least 1900.

His service from Swain.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880 - 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of an excellent post-war photograph of him.

He married Martha Emily Hill (1848-1882) in 1867 and they had 3 children. He married, second, the widow Mary B. Burnett Gamble (1841-1917) in 1883. She had 4 children, and they had a daughter Bertha Ella together.

03/21/1839

06/19/1918; Pope County, AR; burial in Atkins City Cemetery, Atkins, AR