James Zachariah Allen

In 1860 he was a 25 year old living with his parents, 6 siblings, and 4 slaves on their farm at Forestville in Wake County, NC. He was conscripted in Raleigh, NC on 15 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 3rd North Carolina 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 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 8 October with pneumonia, sent to Petersburg the next day, and formally exchanged to return to duty on 10 November 1862.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left arm with "compound commuted fracture of left humerus" in action at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 "and sent to the rear." After 29 June 1863 he was on extended furlough in Raleigh and did not return to his unit. In September 1864 he was assigned on detail, place not given, with no later military record.

By 1880 he was a wheelwright in Granville County, NC and was a carpenter there in 1900.

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 1860, 1880, & 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary E. Ray (1839-1912) in February 1868 and they had 3 children by 1880.

His brother Charles was also captured in a Frederick hospital in 1862.

01/31/1835 in NC

08/14/1901; Granville County, NC; burial in Mary's Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery, Grissom, NC