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Confederate (CSV)

Captain

James McDonald Campbell

(c. 1831 - 1864)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 47th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A minister from Cherokee County 1, he organized and was first Captain of Company E of the 47th Alabama Infantry on their organization at Cedar Bluff, AL on 30 April 1862. He was wounded at Cedar Run, VA on 9 August 1862,2 but was (probably) back with the regiment by Sharpsburg in September.

On the Campaign

Major Campbell was (probably) in command of the Regiment as senior officer present after Colonel Jackson assumed command of the Brigade in relief of Colonel Warren at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. Lieutenant Colonel Bulger was then absent on furlough.

The rest of the War

He was still in command of the regiment to at least 3 October 1862, and was appointed Major on 17 March 1863 to date from 13 September 1862 (or 23 August 3). He commanded the regiment again, at Gettysburg in July, after Colonel Jackson and Lt. Colonel Bulger were wounded and captured, respectively.4 He was killed in action - shot through the head - at or near Spotsylvania Courthouse on the Wilderness Campaign on 8 (or 14) May 1864.5

References & notes

Further service details from his Compiled Service Records,6 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850.

Birth

c. 1831 in TN

Death

05/08/1864; Spotsylvania, VA

Notes

1 Laine, J. Gary, and Morris M. Penny, Law's Alabama Brigade in the War Between the Union and the Confederacy, Shippensburg (Pa): White Mane Publishing Company, 1996 [AotW citation 252]

2 Pitts, Allan J., Confederate Military Units from Cherokee County, Alabama, Published c. 2004, first accessed 15 September 2005, <http://www.rootsweb.com/~alcherok/ch-units.htm> [AotW citation 253]

3 From muster and historical rolls transcribed on cards at ADAH. Also source for State of birth and death date.
State of Alabama, State Archives, and Dr. Edwin C. Bridges, director, and staff, Alabama Department of Archives & History, Published c.2000, first accessed 08 July 2005, <http://www.archives.state.al.us/index.html>, Source page: Historical Roll Cards (/civilwar/soldier.cfm?id=25057) [AotW citation 256]

4 US War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (OR), 128 vols., Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1880-1901, various citations [AotW citation 254]

5 Jones, Ken, History of Law's Alabama Brigade, 1862-1865, Published 1996, first accessed 15 September 2005, <http://www.tarleton.edu/~kjones/lawsbrig.html>, Source page: 47th Alabama Muster Rolls (/47emstr.html) [AotW citation 255]

6 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 31860]

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