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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Franklin Corbett

(c. 1841 - 1916)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 19, from Caswell County, NC he enlisted on 29 April 1861 at Yanceyville, NC and he mustered as a Private in Company A of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 18 May in Raleigh. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot through his hand in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He returned to duty about March 1863 but was detailed on 29 May to work in a hospital in Danville, VA due to his wound. He returned to his company on 4 September 1863. He was detailed away again from January to August 1864 as ambulance Sergeant, disabled by his wounded hand. He was back on duty to 23 January 1865, when he was transferred to Company C of the 3rd North Carolina Cavalry, but he does not appear to have ever joined that unit.

After the War

By 1880 he was a farmer and merchant in Alamance County, NC.

References & notes

His service from Moore's Roster,1 as James T. Corbett, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1841 in NC

Death

1916; Durham, NC; burial in Maplewood Cemetery, Durham, NC

Notes

1 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 1, p. 473 [AotW citation 33127]

2 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 33128]

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