James Manley Lawrence

In 1860 he was a 20 year old living with his parents and 7 younger siblings on their farm at Middle River in Banks County, GA. He enlisted at Homer in Banks County on 24 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, 24th Georgia Infantry.

He was wounded in his left hand, losing 3 fingers in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. The remaining fingers later "withered and were useless."

He was detailed to the Corps Headquarters in about March 1864 and was captured at Amelia Court House, VA on 5 April 1865. He was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD to 29 June, when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

By 1870 he was a farm worker living near his father-in-law at Hollingsworth in Banks County, GA. In 1880 he was farming his own place in Habersham County, GA but by 1900 and to at least 1920 was a farmer back in Banks County.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Further wound details from his 1898 pension application. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Margaret Jane Segars (1845-1894) and they had 10 children between 1867 and 1883. He married again, by 1900, Fannie Loftis (1854-1924).

10/05/1839; Habersham (later Banks) County, GA

12/10/1929; Banks County, GA; burial in Damascus Cemetery, Baldwin, GA