James Calvin Coats

In 1860 he was an unmarried 16 year old farmer living with his parents and 5 younger siblings in their small farm at Rockdale/Gold Ridge, Randolph County, AL. He enlisted at Yorktown, VA on 10 April 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was wounded at Cold Harbor, VA on 27 June 1862 and sent to a hospital in Atlanta, GA on 5 July.

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 and captured there.

He was paroled at Keedysville, MD on 20 September and was home on furlough from 3 October to 3 November 1862. He was wounded yet again at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and by a gunshot in the Wilderness, VA on 5 May 1864. He returned to duty from a hospital in Richmond, VA on 28 September 1864 but was back in a Richmond hospital on 9 February 1865, with no later military record.

By 1870 he was farming his own place in Randolph County, AL - just across the state line from the nearest post office in Bowdon, GA. In 1880 he was a farmer in Blount County, AL. By 1900 he was a Baptist minister at Newnan in Coweta County, GA.

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 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Charlotte Ann Calista McSwain (1842-1889) in January 1863 and they had 7 children. He married again, Mollie E. Davenport (1871-) in October 1891 and they had 2 children.

11/28/1843 in GA

09/28/1905; Coweta County, GA; burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Newnan, GA