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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

James S. Gorham

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 20, from Beaufort County, he enlisted there on 10 May 1861 as Private, Company I, 3rd North Carolina Infantry. He was promoted to Sergeant in July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 1 October 1862, place not given.

References & notes

His service from Moore1 and the Roster.2

Birth

c. 1841; Beaufort County, NC

Death

10/01/1862

Notes

1 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 1, pp. 112 - 114 [AotW citation 6172]

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 25917]

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