James R. Cline

In 1860 he was an unmarried 16 year old farmer living with his parents and 6 siblings on their modest place at Rockdale (or Lamar) in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 26 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 13th Alabama Infantry.

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.

He was on wounded furlough to at least February 1863, but returned to duty. He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware. He died there of chronic dysentery on 13 June 1865.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brother John W Cline (1846 AL-1874 TX) was also in Company K, but was absent, sick, during the Maryland Campaign; he was severely wounded and disabled for further field service at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863.

c. 1844 in AL

06/13/1865; Fort Delaware, DE; burial in Finn's Point National Cemetery, Pennsville, NJ