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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James D. Wilkins

(c. 1843 - 1864)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

Age 18, he enlisted in Waynesboro, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered in Richmond, VA on 12 August as a Private in Company E of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was sent from Fort Delaware to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange on 6 October, and formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was captured again, on 3 July 1863 at Gettysburg, PA, and briefly at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, then back at Fort Delaware. He indicated he wanted to enter the United States service there on 30 August 1863, but was not accepted. He died there of "inflam[mation] of the lungs" on 27 January 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1843 in KY

Death

01/27/1864; Fort Delaware, DE; burial in Finn's Point National Cemetery, Pennsville, NJ

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 33929]

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