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Confederate (CSA)

Sergeant

James N. Adams

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his father, 4 siblings, and 18 slaves on their farm at Washington in Wilkes County, GA. He enlisted in Decatur, De Kalb County, GA and mustered as 4th Sergeant of Company C, Cobb's Legion Infantry on 5 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His father Zelotes filed for his final pay in May 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1844 in GA

Death

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD

Notes

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 33657]

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