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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James L. Wilson

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 22, he enlisted at Fort Macon, NC on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 27th North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was sent to Fort Delaware on 20 September and paroled there and sent to Aikens' Landing, VA on 2 October for exchange, then furloughed home. He was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was wounded again, in the Wilderness, VA on 5 May 1864 and returned to duty in November. He deserted to the enemy on 18 January 1865, took an oath of allegiance to the United States on 28 January (or 24 February) in Washington, DC, and was furnished transportation to Philadelphia, PA.

References & notes

His service from Wilson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1839

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 9845]

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 32098]

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