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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Carter Harrison

(c. 1831 - 1874)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 30 year old farmer, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 17 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H 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 was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 6 July 1863 to 17 May 1865, when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

References & notes

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

He married the widow Nancy Ann Brooks Howell (1835-1905) and they had 3 children between 1869 and 1873.

Birth

c. 1831 in AL

Death

1874; Butler County, AL; burial in Live Oak Cemetery, Live Oak, 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 32573]

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 32574]

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