James E. Spurlin

In 1860 he was a 22 year old school teacher living with the Dr P W Brassell family in Fayetteville, Fayette County, GA. He enlisted as a Private in Company F, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 in Griffin, GA. He was appointed Sergeant on 1 May 1862.

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was elected Junior 2nd Lieutenant on 17 April 1863 and was wounded again, at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863. He was promoted to (Senior) 2nd Lieutenant on 24 March 1864 and wounded for the third time, by a gunshot to his right thigh on 9 July 1864, and captured at Monocacy Junction near Frederick, MD. He was released from Fort Delaware on 17 June 1865.

By 1870 he was again a teacher, living on his father's farm at Fayetteville. By 1880 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer on his own place at Woolsey in Fayette County.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from Henderson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married the widow Lucretia Clementine Reeves Kerlin (1837-1917) in December 1872 and they had 2 children. She had 3 or 4 children from her first marriage to William James Kerlin, a Private in Company I of the 13th Georgia who died of wounds in Charlottesville, VA on 1 October 1864.

10/18/1835 in AL

10/10/1919; Fayette County, GA; burial in Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery, Woolsey, GA