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(c. 1843 - 1862)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 17 year old farmer on his parents' place at Blue Pond in Cherokee County, AL. He enlisted at Fair Play, AL on 6 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 44th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the neck in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds in Winchester, VA on 27 September 1862.
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, as J.L. McRay, wounded at Sharpsburg. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, as James M McCoy. His memorial is on Findagrave.
Birth
c. 1843; Anderson District, SC
Death
09/27/1862; Winchester, VA
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 31714]
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 31715]