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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Walker Stockstill

(1838 - 1862)

Home State: Tennessee

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st Tennessee Infantry (Provisional Army)

Before Sharpsburg

Known as Walker, he was a 22 year old farmer on his mother's place in Lincoln County when enlisted as Private, Company E, First Tennessee Infantry, probably in April 1861.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from Lindsley,1 as J.W. Stockstill, and the Soldiers and Sailors database.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860 and family genealogists, at least one of whom has his death on 18 September 1862.

Birth

1838; Lincoln County, TN

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Lindsley, John Berrien, The Military Annals of Tennessee. Confederate, Nashville: J.M. Lindsley, 1886, pg. 130 [AotW citation 25431]

2 US National Park Service, Department of the Interior, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, Published c. 1999, first accessed 01 January 2000, <http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html> [AotW citation 25432]

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