James D. Lonergan

In 1860 he was a 26 year old plasterer living with wife Ellen in Charleston, SC. He enlisted there on 12 May 1861 and mustered on 23 May as a Private in Company K of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry. He joined Captain A. Burnet Rhett's Brooks Battery at Centreville, VA in December 1861, with other members of Company K with whom he enlisted.

He was left behind, sick, at Middletown, MD and captured there in September 1862.

He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital in Washington, DC on 21 September, and sent on to the Capitol Prison hospital in Washington on 30 September. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 7 October and furloughed on 13 October. There is no later military record.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as John Dee Lonergan and Lanorgan - most of his records are filed under the 2nd South Carolina Infantry, which have him absent in February 1862 and later, sick. Personal details from the US Census of 1860, as James Lanagan. His memorial is on Findagrave.

c. 1833 in IRELAND

03/16/1864; Richmond, VA; burial in Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, VA