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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Madison Strayhorn

(1839 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a married 21 year old living with his wife, widowed mother, and one slave on their farm at Rockdale in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Randolph County on 9 September 1861 and mustered in Montgomery as a Private in Company D, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 27 September, admitted to a US Army hospital in Philadelphia on 1 October, sent to Fort Delaware on 2 December, and transferred to Fortress Monroe, VA on 15 December for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 21 December 1862. He was with his Company at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May then transferred to Company G of the 7th Georgia Infantry on 25 May 1863.

He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

In 1900 he was a farmer in Hopkins County, TX.

References & notes

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

He married Elizabeth (?, 1836-) by 1860, and they had a daughter Mollie (1861-1907).

Birth

07/1839 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 32948]

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 32949]

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