James Washington Walker

Going by Washington, in 1860 he was a 21 year old laborer living with his parents and 7 siblings in Dysartville in McDowell County, NC. He enlisted in McDowell County on 12 March 1862 and mustered at Camp Mangum near Raleigh on 15 April as a Private in Company A, 49th 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 formally exchanged on 10 November and returned to his company on 11 January 1863.

He was with his regiment to at least August 1864 and was captured as a "deserter from the enemy" on 26 February 1865 and sent to City Point, VA. He was transferred to Washington, DC on the 28th, took an oath of allegiance there to the United States on 1 March, and was furnished transportation to Danville, PA (?).

By 1870 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer back at Dysartville, NC.

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 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

12/07/1838; Rutherford County, NC

04/27/1927; Dysartville, NC; burial in Pinnacle Methodist Church Cemetery, Nebo, NC