James L. Phillips

In 1860 he was an 18 year old farmer living with his parents, 3 siblings, and 13 slaves on their farm near Lithonia in DeKalb County, GA. He enlisted in Decatur, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion on 5 August.

He was wounded in the flesh above his left ankle in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 28 September and was furloughed home on 3 October. He was back on duty by December 1862.

He was 3rd Sergeant of his company when he was captured at Strasburg, VA on 19 October 1864. He was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD to 18 February 1865, when he was exchanged, with no later military record.

In 1870 he was a farmer at Lithonia, GA but by 1880 was farming with his father-in-law at Rock Bridge in Gwinnett County, GA. In 1900 he was again farming back in Lithonia, GA. He had retired there by 1910 and lived with his wife in Redan, GA in 1920.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920.

He married Mary Catherine Anderson (1846-1891) in December 1865. He married again, Zipporah S. Wells (1856-1934) in September 1892.

04/09/1842; DeKalb County, GA

03/15/1927; DeKalb County, GA; burial in Lithonia, GA