James B. Phillips

An unmarried 16 year old farmer from Roanoke in Randolph County, AL, he enlisted there on 22 February 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company I 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 captured at Falling Waters, MD on 14 July 1863 on the return from Gettysburg. He was briefly at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC to 8 August, then sent to Point Lookout, MD. He was exchanged on 3 March 1864, in a hospital in Richmond, VA with pneumonia, and furloughed home for 60 days in April. He then returned to duty and served with his company to the end of the war. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, also as Jeter B Phillips, and the Alabama Archives,2 as James B Phillips, Jr. He was one of two James B Phillips in his company, the other (not in Maryland in 1862) old enough to have been his father and also from Roanoke, AL.

c. 1846 in GA