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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James L. Cummins, Jr.

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 19 year old farmer, he enlisted at Roanoke, AL on 22 February 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was "sent to hospital in Virginia, 1862, not heard from since, supposed to be dead."

References & notes

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

His 60 or 62 year old Irish-born father James had enlisted in Company I in July 1861, giving his age as 48, but was discharged for disability in August 1862.

Birth

c. 1843 in AL

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 32441]

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 32442]

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