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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Henry Bell

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 20 year old farmer in the Abbeville District, he enlisted as a Private in Company D, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 15 April 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was in General Hospital #4 in Richmond, VA to the end of September, then furloughed. He was discharged for disability on 12 February 1863 in Columbia, SC.

References & notes

His service from Swain.1

Birth

c. 1841

Notes

1 Swain, Sr., Glen Allan, The Bloody 7th, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2014, pg. 435 [AotW citation 24425]

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