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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James W. Freeman

(c. 1835 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 27 year old farmer at Nixburg, AL, he enlisted at Yorktown, VA on 23 March (or 28 April) 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded by a gunshot at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 8 October and was afterward home on wounded furlough to at least March 1863. He was killed at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2

His brothers George and John were also in Company C and wounded at Sharpsburg; George was killed at Gettysburg in July 1863. Brother William, also in Company C, died of disease in Richmond, VA in July 1862.

Birth

c. 1835 in MS

Death

05/03/1863; Chancellorsville, VA

Notes

1 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 32513]

2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 32514]

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