James Thomas Freeman

In 1860 he was an unmarried 16 year old farmer living with his widowed mother and 2 sisters on their farm at Osanippa, Chambers County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was wounded in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was appointed 4th Corporal on 7 February 1863 and was wounded again, at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863. He was promoted to 4th Sergeant on 1 January 1864 and wounded the third time on the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA on 19 August 1864. He was surrendered and paroled, place and date not given.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Walnut Hill in Tallapoosa County, AL. By 1900 and to at least 1910 he was a carpenter in a cotton mill at Phenix City in Lee County, AL. He had finally retired there by 1920, then 75 years old.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives,2 as James F. Freeman. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Catherine Brown (1853-1921) in December 1865 (she was 12?) and they had 11 daughters and a son. He married again, Mary Reeves (1853-) in 1885, and they had 4 boys and a girl by 1899.

12/10/1844 in AL

01/21/1921; Phenix City, AL; burial in Pine Grove Cemetery, Phenix City, AL