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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Bolls, Jr.

"Jim"

(1841 - 1919)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 20, he mustered as a Private in Company C, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 26 May 1861 in Corinth, MS.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 28 September and sent home on wounded furlough from 2 October to about January 1863. He was promoted to Color Corporal on 20 July 1863. He was captured on the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA on 21 August 1864 and held at Point Lookout, MD until sent to Aikens Landing, VA on 15 March 1865 for exchange.

After the War

In 1870 he was a farmer at Utica in Hinds County, MS. By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was farming in Warren County, and he was a school teacher there in 1910, living with his wife, a farmer.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. He is also in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as Jas. Bowls. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Catherine "Mollie" Stubbs (1848-1870) in December 1862 and they had a daughter Leila (1866-1918). He married again, Emily Cordelia Stephens (1839-1915) in July 1871 and they had 6 more children. Emily's sister Ann (1829-1897) was wife to Jim's oldest brother, the prominent Baptist minister William Wilson Bolls (1827-1896); they'd married in 1846.

Birth

02/15/1841; Utica, MS

Death

03/12/1919; Utica, MS; burial in Antioch Baptist Cemetery, Vicksburg, MS

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 29620]