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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James P. Chavis

(? - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company L or M (later G), 6th Alabama Infantry on 2 June 1861 in Corinth, MS.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from the State of Alabama.1 His death at Sharpsburg from a casualty list for Rodes' Brigade in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser of 8 October 1862, as J.P. Chavers.

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1   State of Alabama, State Archives, and Dr. Edwin C. Bridges, director, and staff, Alabama Department of Archives & History, Published c.2000, first accessed 08 July 2005, <http://www.archives.state.al.us/index.html>, Source page: /civilwar/soldier.cfm?id=33437  [AotW citation 25669]