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(1831 - 1901)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 28 year old farmer with 1 slave at Charlotte in Mecklenburg County, NC. He enlisted at Ranalesburg, NC on 7 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 31 August. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861. He was detailed as a musician to the regimental brass band from September 1861 to June 1862.
On the Campaign
He was left behind sick and captured at Boonsboro, MD on 12 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, sent to Baltimore on 18 September, then transferred to Fortress Monroe, VA on 11 October for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 14 October, furloughed on 17 October, and returned to duty in February 1863, having been absent without leave since December 1862. He transferred to Company H of the 11th North Carolina Infantry on 4 September 1863 and served with them as a Musician to at least February 1865, the latest record in his military file.
After the War
By 1880 he was a miller at Hendersonville, NC and in 1900 he was retired and living with his daughter Epsie (Hephzibah Elizabeth) Baird and family in Asheville, NC.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as James H. McConnel. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, & 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Margret N. Montgomery (1837-1870) in July 1857 and they had 7 children. He married again, the widow Ruth Elizabeth Stradley Wolfe (1836-1905) and they had 4 children between 1872 and 1877.
Birth
10/12/1831 in NC
Death
03/28/1901; Asheville, NC; burial in Beaverdam Baptist Church Cemetery, Asheville, NC
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 33257]