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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James S. Hughes

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He was an unmarried 18 year old farmer at Nixburg, AL when he enlisted on 19 July 1861 in Montgomery, AL and he mustered as a Private in Company C of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was wounded at Seven Pines, VA on 31 May 1862 and was in Chimborazo Hospital #1 in Richmond, VA from 22 May to 8 June.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was killed at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2

Birth

c. 1843 in AL

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 32652]

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 32653]

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