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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James T. Cook

(c. 1831 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A married 31 year old farmer in Pine Apple, AL, he enlisted as Private, Company C, 44th Alabama Infantry on 28 April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his left arm and shoulder in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #5 in Richmond, VA on 5 November 1862 and died there on the 25th of infection from his wounds. His widow filed for his final pay of $116.71 in June 1863 and her agent in Richmond was finally paid on 15 March 1865.

References & notes

His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on a casualty list in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser of 8 October 1862.

Birth

c. 1831 in SC

Death

11/25/1862; Richmond, VA

Notes

1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /civilwar/soldier.cfm?id=39346 [AotW citation 25725]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31620]

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