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(1840 - ?)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as a Private in Company H, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 in Griffin, GA.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the left forearm, both bones broken, in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to CSA General Hospital (GH) #6 in Richmond, VA on 27 or 28 September 1862 and furloughed home from 20 September to 30 November 1862. He was listed as a deserter from GH#1 on 9 January 1863, but was discharged for disability on 9 May 1863.
After the War
In 1870 he was a house carpenter at Social Circle, Walton County, GA, but was working an a farm there by 1880. He received a Georgia Confederate Pension from 1890 to at least 1897.
References & notes
His service from Henderson,1 as J.T. Mitchum, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, also as J.T. Michum and Mitchell. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870 and 1880, and his pension application of 1890, online from the Georgia Archives. He may have been born Mitchum, but used Mitcham for his adult life. His gravesite is on Findagrave, which has his death in 1885.
He married Margurite Elizabeth Wilson (1841-1912) in January 1864 and they had 12 children by 1883.
Birth
12/22/1840; Newton County, GA
Death
Date not known; Walton County, GA; burial in Alcovy Mountain Baptist Cemetery, Monroe, GA
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 7302]
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 28338]