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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James R. McWhorter

(c. 1845 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 15 year old farm boy on his parent's place near Griffin, Spalding County, GA. He enlisted there as a Private in Company C, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was about 17 years old when he was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His father William C. Davis McWhorter filed a claim for his first-born's final pay on 19 January 1863.

References & notes

His service from Henderson,1 as James B. McWhorter, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, also as J.R. McQuirten (missing at Sharpsburg). Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1845; Spalding County, GA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 7241]

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 27879]

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