James F. Workman

In 1860 he was a 21 year old clerk living with farmer M.I. Davis and family and 8 slaves at Verona in Itawamba County, MS. He enlisted in Sardis, MS in February 1861 and mustered there on 20 April (or in Corinth, MS on 8 May) as a Private in Company E (later F), 12th Mississippi Infantry.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 18 (or 22) September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange, arriving on 6 October. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 9 October and was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862.

He was captured on 14 July 1863 at Falling Waters, MD on the return from Gettysburg, PA and held in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC to 23 August, then sent to Point Lookout, MD. He died there of disease on 6 March 1864.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

c. 1839 in SC

03/06/1864; Point Lookout, MD; burial in Point Lookout Confederate Cemetery, Scotland, MD