James Calvin Burly

Age 25, he enlisted on 15 March 1861 at Durant, MS and mustered as a Private in Company I, 12th Mississippi Infantry on 9 May 1861 in Corinth, MS.

He was wounded in the thigh in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was absent on wounded furlough to at least December 1862 and was detailed to the brigade Provost Marshall's staff about June 1863. He was mortally wounded in the head, his skull fractured, on 3 July 1863 at Gettysburg, PA and "left in the hands of the enemy" there. He died on 30 July 1863 in the US Army field hospital at Camp Letterman near Gettysburg and was buried on the grounds.

He was reinterred in Hollywood Cemetery in June 1872.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3, as James C. Burly. His wound at Sharpsburg on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. His burial in Richmond from the Buseys.2 Personal details from family genealogists, some of whom have the family as Burley. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brother Noah Anderson Burly/Burley (1834-1900) was Captain, Companies B and G, 17th South Carolina Infantry, and requested his brother's final pay be sent to their widowed mother Elizabeth in a letter of 21 October 1864.

01/25/1836; Fairfield District, SC

07/30/1863; Gettysburg, PA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA