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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James H. C. Ray

(c. 1829 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 32 year old farmer from Tallassee, Tallapoosa County, AL, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was on a list of paroles of 27 September 1862, but there are no other Federal records of his capture or any hospital treatment; his Confederate records have him missing and presumed killed at Sharpsburg.

References & notes

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2

Birth

c. 1829 in GA

Death

09/1862; 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 32855]

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 32856]

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