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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James J. Frizzell

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farmer with his bother Thomas at Rockford in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted at Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was wounded at Seven Pines, VA on 31 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his shoulder at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 28 September and sent home on wounded furlough on by 7 October. He returned to duty about February 1863 but was detailed away to hospitals and other light duty in Richmond, VA from 7 April to 7 September 1863. He was wounded yet again, on 19 August 1864 in action on the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA. He was admitted to a Richmond hospital on 21 August and furloughed for 60 days on 25 October. He signed a parole at Montgomery, AL on 16 May 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1839 in AL

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 32518]

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 32519]

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