James Newton Faucette

An orphan, in 1860 he was a 19 year old student living with his uncle James Newton Patterson (1806-1865) and his family on their large plantation at Durhamville in Orange County, NC; his sister Sallie was music teacher there. He enlisted at Ft. Macon on 4 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 31 August.

He was wounded in the thigh in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.

He was admitted to CS General Hospital #17 in Richmond, VA on 4 October then furloughed home on 6 October 1862. He returned to his Company on 1 January 1863 and was captured in action on 14 October 1863 at Bristoe Station, VA. He was held initially at the Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC, and transferred on 27 October 1863 to Point Lookout, MD. He was paroled on 10 February 1865 and exchanged on 14 February 1865 at Cox's Landing, VA. He surrendered with his unit on 09 April 1865 at Appomattox Court House, VA.

By 1870 he was a carpenter back in Durham Township in Orange County and in 1880, still a carpenter, he was living in Winston-Salem, NC. By 1900 he was a carpenter in Oxford in Granville County, NC and in 1910, then age 68, he was living with his daughter Mary and her family at Dutchville and helping to work their farm.

Basic casualty information from Wilson.1 His service from the Roster 2 and and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3, both as James N. Faucett. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His parents were David Anderson Faucette (1815-1847) and Mary Roberson Patterson (1813-1855).

His cousin Willie T Patterson was also in Company G and wounded at Sharpsburg, losing a leg to amputation.

He married Ann Haseltine Cannady (1844-1903) in December 1870 and they had a daughter and three sons.

10/04/1841; Memphis, TN

12/01/1918; Dutchville, NC; burial in Cannady Hill Cemetery, Oxford, NC