James Hamlin Devin

A farmer from Greenville, Butler County, AL, going by Hamlin, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 29 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded by gunshots to his upper right leg and head and captured at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was paroled at Keedysville, MD on 27 September, admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #4 in Richmond, VA on 24 October, and furloughed home on 11 (or 14) November 1862. He was away from his company on wounded furlough, in hospitals, and on detail into May 1864 and was captured again, at Hanover Junction, VA, on 23 May 1864. He was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD and was in the hospital there when he was exchanged on 10 February 1865. He was captured yet again, on 3 April in a hospital in Richmond, VA and sent back to Point Lookout about 1 May. He was admitted to the post hospital there on 6 May, still suffering from his Sharpsburg leg wound, and took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released on 25 July 1865.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as Devon, and the Archives,2 as James H. Deneon. A Federal hospital record says he was 29 years old in 1865; the Alabama Database record says he was 44 when he enlisted.