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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Jesse James Savage

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 19 year old farmer living with his parents and 4 siblings on their small farm at Rockdale in 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 promoted to 3rd Sergeant on 19 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was promoted to 2nd Sergeant on 1 July 1863 and elected 2nd Lieutenant on 14 August 1863. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

His brothers Jefferson Lafayette (1835-1907) and Joseph Shelton Savage were also in Company K.

Birth

c. 1841 in AL

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 32907]

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 32908]

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