James Ashley Pollett

Going by Ash or Ashley, in 1860 he was 19 years old and lived with his parents and 7 siblings on their modest farm at Swainsboro in Emanuel County, GA. He enlisted in Johnson County, GA on 1 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 48th Georgia Infantry.

He was severely wounded in the foot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. His foot was amputated and he was captured there.

He was sent from Fort McHenry in Baltimore to Fortress Monroe, VA on 18 October and was formally exchanged on 12 November 1862. He was afterward in Richmond, VA hospitals or home on furlough to June 1863. He was detailed to "collect stragglers" at the Conscript Camp, Macon GA that month and to assist the enrolling officer in Johnson County on 1 July 1863. He was on that duty or on furlough through 1864 with no later military record.

By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer in Johnson County, GA. In 1910 he was a farm worker there, possibly on his son Silas' place.

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He is on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862, as A.H. Pollett. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Harriett Matilda Lamb (1841-1896) in 1865 and they had 12 children by 1888. He married again, Sarah Ann Selina Drake (1847-1931) in November 1897.

His brother John Henry Pollett (1839-1908) was also in Company F of the 48th Infantry.

05/05/1841; Emanuel County, GA

12/16/1910; Johnson County, GA; burial in Pollett Cemetery, Johnson County, GA