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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James T. Edwards

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old living with his parents and 8 siblings on their modest farm at Greensboro in Guilford County, NC. He enlisted on 4 May 1861 at Fort Macon, NC and mustered as Private, Company B, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 20 June.

On the Campaign

He was initially reported wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured, but later determined to have been killed there.

References & notes

He's listed as wounded by Wilson.1. His service from the Roster 2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1839

Death

09/19/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9841]

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 26075]

3 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 32078]

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