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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James A. Radford

(c. 1839 - 1863)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 22 year old farmer at Edgefield Court House, he enlisted as Private, Company H, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 15 April 1861. He reenlisted in Company A on 13 April 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was in a hospital in Winchester, VA and detailed there as a cook to about December 1862, but he died of pneumonia in a hospital in Richmond on 18 April 1863.

References & notes

His service from Swain.1

Birth

c. 1839

Death

04/18/1863; Richmond, VA

Notes

1 Swain, Sr., Glen Allan, The Bloody 7th, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2014, pg. 612 [AotW citation 24622]

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