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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James F. Gray

(1833 - 1907)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He was a married 29 year old farmer at Scottsville, AL when he enlisted there on 15 April 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 44th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was wounded again, at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and was furloughed home for 60 days on 28 July. He was later listed as absent without leave and did not return. He 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. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

09/23/1833 in SC

Death

08/13/1907; in AL; burial in Mount Carmel Cemetery, West Blocton, 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 31695]

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 31696]

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