James Stewart

A 17 year old farm boy in the Edgefield District, he enlisted as Private, Company A, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 9 August 1862.

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

He deserted from his unit at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and was sent to Philadelphia 4 July then on to Fort Delaware. He enlisted in US service, with Ahl's Independent Battery, (First) Delaware Heavy Artillery, mustered-in on 27 July 1863 as the battery was first organized, and served in the garrison at Fort Delaware to the end of the war.

His service from Swain1 and his Compiled Service Records (for DE artillery) via the Historical Data Systems database.

c. 1845