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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James A. Braswell

(c. 1836 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

Age 25, he enlisted at Madison in Morgan County, GA on 29 July 1861 and mustered at Richmond, VA on 2 August as a Private in Company G, Cobb's Legion Infantry. He was appointed 2nd Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

Initially reported wounded and captured, he was killed in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His widow Lacy/Lecy Jane Braswell filed for his final pay in April 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1836

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 33718]

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