James M. Hammock

An unmarried 20 year old farmer from Tallassee, Tallapoosa County, AL, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

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 court martialed in October 1862, charge(s) and outcome not given. He was processed for a disability discharge in March 1863, but was listed as absent without leave at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and was captured during the return from Gettysburg, PA on 14 July at Falling Waters (or 13 July at Hagerstown), MD.

He was briefly in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC, then a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD from 9 August 1863 to 25 January 1864, when he took an oath of allegiance and enlisted for United States service as a Private in Company G, First United States Volunteer Infantry. He was then age 23. He was with his company to 15 October 1864, them detailed to the "northern stockade line" and by December was "taking care of horses in QM [Quartermaster's] Department." He was afteraward back with his company but occasionaly detailed as company cook and as a teamster. He mustered out with his company at Fort Leavenworth, KS on 21 May 1866.

He began receiving a veteran's pension in 1897 for disability from his US service.

His service from his Compiled Service Records, Confederate1 and Union,2 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone reflects his US but not CS service. It was provided by the US Government at the request of his son James Jr. in about 1931.

He married Selia Boatright in December 1868 in Tallapoosa County, AL.

c. 1841; Minnesota, GA

01/27/1918; East Tallassee, AL; burial in Carrville Cemetery, Carrville, AL