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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

James Pinkney Cowan

(1840 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Rowan County, he enlisted as a Private in Company B, 4th North Carolina Infantry on 25 April 1861 at Statesville. He was promoted to 5th Sergeant on 2 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was captured at Fredrick, MD on 12 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was briefly at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD, then a prisoner to Fort Delaware by about 18 September. He was paroled and sent to Aiken's Landing, VA for exchange on 2 October and was in a hospital in Richmond, VA and furloughed on the 22nd. He was promoted to First Sergeant on 31 October and commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in December 1862, but he was killed on 3 May 1863 at Chancellorsville, VA.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 via fold3, and the Roster.2 He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850.

Birth

10/07/1840; Rowan County, NC

Death

05/03/1863; Chancellorsville, VA

Notes

1 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 27514]

2 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966- [AotW citation 27515]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #107 [AotW citation 34637]

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