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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James B. Clark

(c. 1828 - 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

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.

On the Campaign

He was originally listed as missing in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862, but had been captured there, and probably mortally wounded.

The rest of the War

His name appears on a US Army parole of 3 October 1862, but in no other Federal documents. By April 1864, after listing him missing and not heard from since September 1862, his regiment presumed he had been killed there. There is no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg status also in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists.

Birth

c. 1828 in MS

Death

10/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 29674]

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