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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James L. Kimbrell

(c. 1841 - 1863)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 20, he enlisted at Ranalesburg, NC on 3 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 13 May in Raleigh. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 28 September and furloughed home on 3 October. He returned from furlough about January 1863 and was wounded again, by a gunshot to his left shoulder at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May. He was killed at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863.

References & notes

His service from Moore's Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1841; York District, SC

Death

07/01/1863; Gettysburg, PA

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. 478 [AotW citation 33161]

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 33162]

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