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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James D. Rodgers

(c. 1843 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 17 year old farmer living with his parents and 5 siblings on their small farm at Wedowee, AL. He enlisted in Eastville, AL on 6 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was killed in action at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives,2 as James D. Rogers. Personal details from the US Census of 1860, also as Rogers.

Birth

c. 1843 in AL

Death

07/01/1863; Gettysburg, PA

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 32895]

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 32896]

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