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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Henry Lomax

(c. 1836 - 1868)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Going by Henry, by 1850 he was living with his family in Holmes County, MS. At age 24 he enlisted in Durant, MS on 30 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company F (later I), 12th Mississippi Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 18 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862.

From about March 1863 to January 1864 he was detailed as a nurse to the CS hospital in Staunton, VA. He was captured at Petersburg, VA on 9 September 1864 and was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD from 23 September to 4 June 1865, when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850.

His brother Alex was also in Company I of the 12th Mississippi Infantry.

Birth

c. 1836; Obion County, TN

Death

1868

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 34108]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #100 [AotW citation 34109]

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