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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James M. Clark

(c. 1840 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 21 year old farmer from Roanoke, Randolph County, AL, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 27 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 13th Alabama Infantry. He transferred to Company I on 22 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 7 October and sent to a hospital in Petersburg, VA on 10 October. He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and died of disease while a prisoner at Fort Delaware on 22 September 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1840 in AL

Death

09/22/1863; Fort Delaware, DE; burial in Finn's Point National Cemetery, Pennsville, NJ

Notes

1 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 32403]

2 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 32404]

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