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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James A. McDougal

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 19, he enlisted on 11 or 17 March 1861 at Union Church, MS and mustered as a Private in Company H, 12th Mississippi Infantry on 5 May 1861 in Corinth, MS.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was originally buried "In David Reel's field, 3rd one from house, S.W. corner", on the battlefield at Sharpsburg. His father John filed for his final pay of $125.23 in February 1864.

After the War

He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett,1 as J. McDougle. His service from his Compiled Confederate Military Service Records,2 online from fold3. His death at Sharpsburg from a casualty list on the front page of the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as J. McDougall.

Birth

c. 1842 in MS

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4842]

2 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 29727]

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