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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Valentine Harlan

(1831 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Going by Val or Valentine, probably to distinguish him from his father James, in 1860 he was a 29 year old farmer living with his parents, 4 younger siblings, and 3 slaves on their farm at Rockdale in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D of the 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 as captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 6 July to his death on 24 September 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

04/20/1831; Carroll County, GA

Death

09/24/1863; Fort Delaware, DE; burial in Finn's Point National Cemetery, Pennsville, NJ

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 32569]

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 32570]

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