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J.A. Broome
(1839 - 1917)
Home State: Georgia
Education: Virginia Military Institute
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He applied for admission to the US Military Academy at West Point in 1857, but was not accepted, then was a student at VMI for 3 years in the class of 1863 (repeated freshman year). He helped raise a Company of troops and entered Confederate service at Milltown, Chambers County, AL as Captain of Company D, 14th Alabama Infantry on 15 July 1861. He was promoted to Major of the regiment on 2 August (to date from 8 July) 1862.
On the Campaign
He commanded the regiment as senior officer present in Maryland in September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on 3 October 1862, and was wounded at the Wilderness on 6 May 1864 and lost his left leg to amputation. He retired from active service on 25 March 1865.
After the War
He lived at least briefly among ex-pat Confederates in Brazil, then returned to his hometown of La Grange, GA.
More on the Web
His service information from the VMI Archives1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. The USMA detail from the US Military Academy Cadet Application Papers (1857), also from fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph contributed by user Churchwell.
Birth
11/27/1839; La Grange, GA
Death
05/07/1917; La Grange, GA; burial in Hillview Cemetery, La Grange, GA
1 Virginia Military Institute, and Diane B. Jacob, Head, Archives & Records Management, Virginia Military Institute Archives, Published c.2000, first accessed 01 January 2003, <http://www.vmi.edu/archives/>, Source page: /rosters/record.php?ID=1273 [AotW citation 29826]
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 29827]