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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Edwards

(c. 1822 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He was a married 40 year old farmer at Randolph, AL when he enlisted there on 31 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 44th Alabama Infantry (as a substitute for James F McCary).

On the Campaign

He was seriously wounded by a gunshot to his mouth in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the 3rd Alabama Hospital in Richmond, VA on 28 September and was furloughed home for 40 days on 6 October. By July 1863 he was listed as absent without leave and did not return. He was later listed in a register of "maimed soldiers" and was paroled as a "straggler" at Selma, AL in June 1865.

References & notes

His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862.

Birth

c. 1822 in AL

Notes

1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 31693]

2 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 31694]

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