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Confederate (CSA)

Private

James F. Guthrie

(c. 1834 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

A 27 year old farmer's son, he enlisted and mustered in Carrollton, GA on 15 August 1861 as a Private in Company F, Cobb's Legion Infantry Battalion.

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 Matthew filed a claim for his final pay in December 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 filed under James F Gurthrie, online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850.

Birth

c. 1834 in SC

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 33795]

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