James Francis Humphries

In 1860 he was a 19 year old farm hand living with his parents, 7 siblings, and 17 slaves on their plantation at Wetumpka in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted on 1 September 1861 in Richmond, VA and mustered as a Private in Company C of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was appointed 4th Corporal on 11 July 1862.

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

He was paroled at Keedysville, MD on 20 September. He was found unfit for continued field service in early 1863, detailed to the Medical Department in March 1863, and was away from his company for the rest of the war, for much of that time as a teamster with the medical purveyor at Orange Court House, VA. He was paroled at Talladega, AL on 11 May 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer in Coosa and Elmore Counties, AL but by 1900 was farming in the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, which became part of Oklahoma in 1907.

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 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah Jane Lawson (1846-1910) in December 1866 and they had 8 children.

12/04/1841; Harris County, GA

01/14/1903; Lebanon, OK; burial in Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, OK