James Osgood Andrew, Jr.

A clergyman's son, in 1860 he was a 19 year old student at Emory College living with Thomas M. Merriwether, his family, and 22 slaves on the Merriwether plantation at Conyers in Newton County, GA. He enlisted at Covington in Newton County, GA and mustered as a Private in Company A, Cobb's Legion Infantry on 5 August 1861.

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

He was paroled at Fort McHenry in Baltimore in November, in a hospital in Petersburg, VA on 4 December, and furloughed home for 60 days on 19 December 1862. He was promoted to 3rd Corporal, date not found, and was admitted to the CS General Hospital in Farmville, VA in June 1863 for his Maryland wound and afterward detailed to the Alabama enrolling officer in Selma, AL. He was retired to the Invalid Corps on 26 July 1864.

He returned to school at Emory and graduated. By 1870 he was bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Summerfield in Dallas, AL and in 1880 was preaching in Mobile, AL and in 1900 in Selma, AL.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

09/30/1841; Oxford, GA

04/27/1907; Mobile, AL; burial in Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, AL