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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Monroe Rich

(c. 1837 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 25, from Hertford County, NC, he was conscripted at Raleigh, NC on 16 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 14th North Carolina 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 19 September, transferred to the US hospital in Chester, PA, then sent to Fort Delaware in November. He was paroled for exchange on 15 December, but was "too sick to move" and died in the post hospital there the same day.

His widow Mary Ann filed for his final pay in January 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2

Birth

c. 1837

Death

12/15/1862; Fort Delaware, DE

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 34163]

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: #185 [AotW citation 34164]

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