James Casper Reeves

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farm hand on his parents' small place in the Fork District of Montgomery County, NC. He enlisted at Troy, NC on 9 September 1861 and mustered at Camp Fisher at High Point, NC as a Private in Company K, 34th North Carolina Infantry on 25 October.

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 formally exchanged on 10 November 1862, was back with his company about March 1863, and was promoted to Corporal on 24 July 1863. He was wounded by a gunshot to his hip joint which broke his femur, place and date not given, and was admitted to the General Hospital in Petersburg, VA on 14 November 1864. He died there of wounds on 20 November 1864.

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.

c. 1839; Montgomery County, NC

11/20/1864; Petersburg, VA