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(1818 - 1889)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as 3rd Sergeant of Company D, 13th Georgia Infantry, date not given, and was elected 2nd Lieutenant on 22 January 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded through the breast bone and in the right hand in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg. He was elected First Lieutenant to date from the battle.
The rest of the War
He was on leave through December 1862. He was ill in hospitals or on furlough from July to October 1863 and resigned his commission on a Surgeon's Certificate of Disability on 27 November 1863.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he worked a large farm near Thomaston in Upson County, GA. By his death in 1889 he was paralyzed and bedridden in Upson County, GA due to his Sharpsburg wounds.
References & notes
His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, also as James P or James L Andrews, the US Census of 1870 and 1880, and his February 1889 Confederate pension application, online from the Georgia Archives. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Achsah Matilda Holloway (1822-1859) in October 1839 and they had 8 children. He married again, Frances E. "Bettie" Caraway (1844-) in July 1867 and they had 5 more.
Birth
09/14/1818; Oglethorpe County, GA
Death
04/14/1889; Oglethorpe County; burial in Glenwood Cemetery, Thomaston, GA
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 7249]
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 28258]