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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Harris Powell

(1838 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

In 1861 he was a 21 year old overseer living with his father, stepmother, and 2 siblings on their plantation near Conyers in Burke County, GA. He enlisted on 1 August 1861 in Covington, GA and mustered on 5 August as a Private in Company A of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion. He was sick in Chimborazo Hospital #1 from 18 December to 7 February 1862.

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 Asa filed a claim for his final pay of $74.13 in January 1863 which was paid in February 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, as James H Powel. Personal details from family genealogists, also as Harrison James Powell, and the US Census of 1860.

His brother Sanford was also in Company A.

Birth

0804/1838 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 33882]

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