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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James McGee

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 20, from Guilford County, he was conscripted on 8 July 1862 at Greensboro and mustered as a Private in Company H, First North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds at US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 4 October 1862. He was originally buried "on west side of and in the [Mt. Olivet] cemetery at Frederick."

After the War

He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett.1 He is also listed among the Confederate soldiers buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, MD, and may still be there [via Findagrave]. His service from the Roster 2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.4

Birth

c. 1842

Death

10/04/1862; Frederick, 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 4845]

2 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966- [AotW citation 19083]

3 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 31568]

4 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #9.597 [AotW citation 31569]

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