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(1839 - 1921)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 21 year old farmer on his recently widowed mother's place at Hurdle Mills in Person County, NC. He enlisted on 7 March 1862 at Hillsborough, NC and mustered as a Private in Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the ankle in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to CS Army General Hospital #1 in Richmond, VA on 7 October then furloughed home. His furlough was extended several times and he returned to his company on 21 May 1863. He was furloughed again on 4 June and discharged because of wounds on 16 June 1863.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer in Person County, by then a widower living with two of his sisters-in-law. In 1920 he was retired and was boarding with the James M Clayton family in Mt. Tirzah Township in Person County.
References & notes
Basic casualty information from Wilson.1 His service from the Roster2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3, both as James M Sneed. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880, 1910, & 1920, also as J.M. and J. Marion Sneed. His gravesite is on Findagrave; it has his birth in 1833.
He married Martha A W “Pattie” Stallings (1839-1900) in March 1866.
Birth
06/06/1839; Person County, NC
Death
07/22/1921; Flat River, Person County, NC; burial in Andrews-Blalock-Sneede-Timberlake Cemetery, Roxboro, NC
1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9978]
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-, Vol. VIII [AotW citation 10050]
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 31493]