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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James R. Farmer

(c. 1825 - ?)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 36, he enlisted at Lightwood Knot Springs near Columbia, SC on 16 August 1861 and mustered on 10 September as a Private in Company E, 14th South 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, sent to Fort Delaware, then, on 2 October, on to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital by 27 October then sent to the parole camp at Camp Lee, VA. He was formally exchanged on 10 November and furloughed home for 40 days on 11 November 1862.

He was wounded and captured at Williamsport, MD on 6 July 1863 and sent to Fort Delaware. He was exchanged and released on 18 September 1864, but was afterward sick in hospitals to at least the end of the year. He was admitted to the CS hospital in Farmville, VA on 12 April 1865 and was surrendered and paroled there by 21 April.

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. 1825

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 34167]

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: #192 [AotW citation 34168]

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