James G. Adcock

Son of successful planter Anderson William Adcock, in 1860 he was 22 years old and lived on the family plantation near Montgomery, AL. He gave his residence as Wetumpka, AL when he enlisted in Montgomey as a Private in Company A, 13th Alabama Infantry on 19 July 1861. He was discharged on 12 November 1861, but reenlisted on 24 March 1862, at Yorktown, VA.

He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was treated at the "White House" hospital on the Line farm at Sharpsburg, but died there of wounds between 17 and 29 September. He was buried nearby, but his current resting place is unknown.

His service from the Alabama database1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, which say he was killed outright at Sharpsburg. Hospital detail from a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

His brothers William A (1836-?), John Drury (1835-1895), Andrew Jackson (1838-1881), and Dixon L Adcock (1842-1863, Gettysburg) were also in Company C.

c. 1838 in AL

09/00/1862; Sharpsburg, MD