James Wilson White

In 1860 he was a 31 year old merchant in Marion County, AL. Going by Wilson, he enrolled on 13 September 1861 in Tuscambia, AL and mustered as 2nd Lieutenant of Company H, 26th Alabama Infantry on 3 October. He was promoted to Captain on 20 March 1862 after Captain John Spears White resigned.

He commanded his Company in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was wounded at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863. He was on leave in June 1864 and afterward commanded the regiment as senior officer present on the Atlanta Campaign. He was wounded at Franklin, TN on 30 November 1864 with no later military record found.

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer at Vernon, Lamar County, AL, and was tax collector there in 1882.

His service from Fincham's roster,1 sourced from Tod L. Molsworth's O'Neal's 26th Alabama: the Little Regiment that Did (2000) and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3 (mixed together with those of Captain John S White), also as Wilson White. His command on South Mountain from a casualty list for Rodes' Brigade in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser of 8 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Rebecca Ann Lawler (b. 1837) in about 1860 and they had 6 children.

04/26/1828; Marion County, AL

08/22/1902; Vernon, AL; burial in Vernon Cemetery, Vernon, AL