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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James W. Gray

(c. 1832 - ?)

Home State: Florida

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th Florida Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 28 year old farmer in Leon County, FL. He enlisted at Tallahassee, FL on 12 April 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 5th Florida 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 admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital with remittent fever on 9 October, furloughed home on 22 (or 28) October, and was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He returned to his company in January or February 1863, but was again hospitalized, on 26 April 1863, and could not return to duty. He was discharged at Tallahassee for disability on 30 October 1863.

After the War

In 1870 he was a farmer near Crawfordville in Wakula County, FL, but by 1880 was farming in Lowndes County, GA.

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 1860-1880.

He married Mary Elizabeth Smitson (1830-1918) in about 1854 and they had 6 children between 1856 and 1872.

Birth

c. 1832; Marlboro County, SC

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 34781]

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: #305 [AotW citation 34782]

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