James H. Cook

An unmarried 17 year old farmer from Greenville, AL, he enlisted at Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was promoted to 3rd Corporal on 1 October 1861 and 2nd Corporal by August 1862.

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

He was First Corporal by June 1863 and was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863. He was a prisoner at Fort Delaware by 12 July 1863 with no later military record.

In 1870 he was a farmer at Madison Station in Madison County, MS. In 1910 he was a retail grocer and he and his wife were living with their daughter Zuella (Riales) and her family at Carrolton, Carroll County, MS.

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 1870 & 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth P "Bettie" Sledge (later Saltzman, 1849-1891) in February 1868 in Madison County, MS and they had 5 children by 1876. They were probably divorced by 1887. He married again, Mary Mahalia (?, 1856-).

c. 1845 in AL

Date not known; burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Prattville, AL