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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

James McKee

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 20 year old farmer living with his parents and sister on their small farm at Gold Ridge/Rockdale, Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 26 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was appointed 3rd Corporal on 15 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was captured nearby the next day.

The rest of the War

He was sent to Aikens' Landing, VA on 6 October 1862 for exchange. He was captured again, in the Wilderness, VA on 5 May 1864, held at Point Lookout, MD to 10 August, then transferred to Elmira, NY. He was sent to James River, VA for exchange on 2 March 1865 with no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives,2 which says he was captured 12 September 1862 at Frederick, MD. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1840 in GA

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 32771]

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 32772]

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