James Pamplin

In 1860 he was an 18 year old farm laborer living with John Stacey and his family, 3 free black farm workers, and 5 slaves on the Stacey farm at Lawsonville in Rockingham County, NC. He enlisted there on 30 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 3 June in Suffolk, VA. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.

He was a prisoner at Fort Delaware until 2 October, when he was sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November and returned to his company in about January 1863. He was wounded again, in the hip at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and absent in hospitals and on furlough to at least October 1864. He was captured in a Richmond, VA hospital on 3 April 1865 and a prisoner in Richmond, then Newport News, VA to 16 June, when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

c. 1842 in NC