James Stewart High

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 18 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort McHenry in Baltimore by 26 September. He was sent to Fortress Monroe, VA on 2 October and on to Aikens' Landing, VA the next day for exchange. He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 22 October and furloughed for 30 days on the 24th.

He was back with his company by February 1863. He was sick again in May 1863 with irritatus spinalis and in hospitals in Richmond, VA to 28 July then in a Raleigh hospital to about July 1864, when he was detailed as a shoemaker there. He was on that duty to at least December 1864, the last record in his military file.

By 1870 he was a farmer at Forestville in Wake County, NC and was continued farming in the county to at least 1880. He was still suffering from "spinal trouble and paralysis" on the day he died in 1901.

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, the US Census of 1870, his 8 July 1901 Confederate pension application (he died that evening), his widow's pension application, and his death notice in a newspaper clipping dated 10 July 1901, source not found.

He married Elizabeth Ann Ferguson (1834-1907) in March 1855 and they had at least 10 children.

04/14/1828 in NC

07/08/1901; Durham, NC; burial in High family ground, Durham, NC