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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James S. Gilliam

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 22 year old laborer, he enlisted in Graham, NC on 8 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 15 May in Garysburg, NC. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left thigh in action and captured at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 23 October, furloughed home on 25 November, and absent on wounded furlough to about January 1863. He was wounded again on 3 May 1863 at Chancellorsville, VA and was appointed 2nd Corporal from that date. He was on furlough to about November 1863 and was promoted to First Corporal about that time. He was promoted again, to 4th Sergeant on 8 March 1864, and wounded yet again, in the Wilderness, VA on 5 May.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1839

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. 488 [AotW citation 33213]

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 33214]

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