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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Morrison Stitt

(1835 - 1864)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 49th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 24 year old farmer living with his twice-widowed mother and 5 siblings, probably on his maternal grandfather Frederick Ezell's plantation (22+ slaves), at Wolfsville in Union County, NC. He enlisted at Charlotte, NC on 19 April 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 49th North 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 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 to return to duty.

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot on 3 June 1864 in action near Bermuda Hundred, VA and died of wounds in the Poplar Lawn Hospital in Petersburg, VA on 5 June.

References & notes

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. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

11/02/1835 in NC

Death

06/05/1864; Petersburg, VA; burial in Providence Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Charlotte, NC

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 34770]

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: #317 [AotW citation 34771]

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