James Wesley Hoard

In 1860 he was a 23 year old farm worker living on John A Kelly's place at Mt Olive in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted there on 29 June 1861 and mustered at Weogufka, AL on 2 July as a Private in Company H 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 ill in hospitals in Richmond and Danville, VA from November 1862 to April 1863. He was captured in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and was briefly a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD, where he volunteered for United States Army service and was released.

He mustered as a Private in Company H, First United States Volunteer Infantry on 6 June at Norfolk, VA and went West with them. By January 1865 he was in the Dakota Territory, and he was detailed to a wagon train from Fort Rice to Fort Leavenworth, KS in October 1865. He mustered out there on 27 November 1865.

In 1870 he was a farmer at Parkville in Platte County, MO and in 1880 was farming at Vesta in Johnson County, NE. By 1900 he was living with his son Thomas and family in Cowley County, KS. In 1910 he was retired and lived at Latham in Butler County, KS.

His service from his Compiled Service Records, Confederate1 and Union,2 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives,3 as James M. Hoard. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Catherine Logan (later Hendrix; 1840-1926) and they had a son William Henry, born in 1862. He married again, Emily Letitia Scott (1848-1948) in Missouri in 1866 and they had 10 children.

06/07/1839; Newton, GA

06/14/1911; Beaumont, KS; burial in Latham Cemetery, Latham, KS