James Love Howell

In 1860 he was a 17 year old farmer living with his parents, 7 younger siblings, and 3 slaves on the family farm at Rockdale in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted on 6 July 1861 in Randolph County, AL and mustered as a Private in Company D of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was appointed 3rd Corporal on 6 August 1862.

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 promoted to 5th Sergeant on 18 December 1862 and to 4th Sergeant on 6 May 1863. He was wounded by a gunshot through the small of his back into his hip at Gettysburg, PA in July 1863 and captured there. He was initially treated at the College Hospital in Gettysburg then sent to the US Army hospital in Chester, PA on 21 July. He was transferred to City Point, VA for exchange on 19 August and was admitted to a hospital in Williamsburg, VA the next day. He was sent home on furlough on 4 September 1863.

He was captured again, in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD to 8 August 1864, when he was transferred to the prison at Elmira, NY. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States there on 23 June 1865 and was released.

He returned to farming in Randolph County until 1872 when he went to Texas, farming first in McLennan County for a year, then Erath County. He was a farmer at Dublin, TX for the rest of his life.

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, 1880, and 1900, as J. Love Howell. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mytilda Jeanette Leveritte (1845-1923) in about 1867 and they had 3 children.

10/05/1843; Randolph County, AL

06/16/1905; Dublin, TX; burial in Upper Greens Creek Cemetery, Dublin, TX