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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Oliver Byrd

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an 18 year old clerk in his brother Robert's store living with Robert and family and their 4 slaves in Americus, Sumter County, GA. He enlisted there on 27 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 4th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the head in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 12 October 1862, probably in a US Army field hospital near Sharpsburg.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Wound and death date details from a casualty list by Surgeon Philpot of the 4th Georgia published in the Atlanta Southern Confederacy of 18 November 1862; thanks to Laura Elliott for that, via CivilWarTalk. Personal details from family genealogists and from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1842 in GA

Death

10/12/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 35095]

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