James Robert Rambo

In 1860 he was a 17 year old student living with his parents and siblings on the prosperous family farm at Paulding in Jasper County, MS. He enlisted on 27 April 1861 at Paulding, Jasper County, MS and mustered as a Private in Company F, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 31 May 1861 in Corinth.

He was wounded by a gunshot, a "flesh wound of forearm" in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 28 September and on wounded furlough from 6 October to 18 March 1863, then back on duty. He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his right forearm in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 10 May and again sent home on furlough on 31 May. He was back with his Company by September 1864 and was surrendered and paroled with them at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870 he was again farming with his parents and siblings, by then at Eutaw in Limestone County, TX, and in 1880 was working his own place in Limestone County. In 1910, still in Limestone County, he lived with his sister Francis and helped her and her son Thomas on their farm there.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound also in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as J.W. Ramuro. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880, 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Nancy C. Coley (1857-) and they had 3 sons between 1874 and 1878.

05/19/1843 in GA

12/29/1912; Johnson, OK; burial in Connerville Cemetery, Connerville, OK