James Jethro Williams

In 1860 he was a 16 year old farmer living with his parents, 2 siblings, and 4 slaves on their farm near Ellaville in Schley County, GA. He enlisted there on 1 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A of the 27th Georgia Infantry.

He was captured at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was treated at a US field hospital near the battlefield, then a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, when he was transferred to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange, arriving on 6 October. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 9 October and sent on to the post hospital at the parole camp, Camp Lee, in Richmond on the 24th. He was discharged there for disability on 12 (or 15) November 1862 ...

... because of inability to keep up with his regiment. He volunteered, contrary to the advice of others, with the hope of being equal to active military duty.

In 1870 he was teaching school and living with his parents in Schley County, GA but by 1880 was a teacher in Taylor County, GA. In 1900 he was teaching in Oglethorpe, Macon County, GA but was at Pinehurst in Dooly County, GA by 1903 and in 1910 was a merchant in the city market in Unadilla, GA. He was county tax receiver there in 1920.

His service from his Compiled Service Record,1 online via fold3, as J.J. Williams. He appears on a casualty list in the Atlanta Southern Confederacy   of 18 November 1862 as having been wounded in the leg; that may be a reference to his crippled foot. He made no mention later of being wounded in action. Personal details from family genealogists, his 1902 and later pension applications, and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Ann Elizabeth Taylor (1851-aft. 1910) in December 1872, and they adopted at least 3 sons. He married again, Mamie Cox, in or after January 1920.

09/28/1844; Talbot County, GA

1929; Unadilla, GA; burial in Walnut Cemetery, Unadilla, GA