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Submitted: 5/19/18 • Approved: 5/19/18 • Last Updated: 5/22/18 • R186449-G0-S3
PRIVATE CSA
Company E 8 Louisiana Infantry
Civil War Confederate
October 15, 1833 - March 6, 1909
From Louisiana Archives ~ Shamblin, James W, Private Company E, 8 Louisiana Infantry. Enlisted June 19, 1861, New Orleans, Louisiana. Present on all Rolls to April, 1862. Roll to June 30, 1862, Absent, sick, in Hospital. Roll July & August, 1862,Present. Roll September & October, 1862, Absent, wounded since September 17, 1862. Federal Rolls of Prisoners of War, Captured Antietam, October 1, 1862. On Hospital. Register, Admitted October 10, 1862,to No 5 USA General Hospital, Frederick, Maryland. Sent to General Hospital, October 11, 1862. Paroled Fort McHenry, Maryland, October 13, 1862. Sent to Fort Monroe, Virginia, for exchange. Exchanged at Aikens Landing, Virginia, November 10, 1862. Rolls November 1862 to August, 1863, Absent, sick, wounded. Rolls August 31, 1863, to November, 1863, Present. Roll April 30 to August 31, 1864, Absent, missing since September 22, 1864. Federal Rolls of Prisoners of War, Captured Fishers Hill, or Strausburg, Virginia, September 20, 1864. Forwarded to Point Lookout, Maryland, from Harper's Ferry, Virginia, October 3, 1864. Paroled at Point Lookout, Maryland & Transferred for exchange February 10, 1865. Exchanged Coxes Landing, James River,Virginia, February 14 to 15, 1865. Born Alabama, occupation plasterer, Residence Vicksburg, Mississippi, age when enlisted 23, single.
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