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At the moment, the website featuring individual Compiled Service Records is down. However, you may procure his records through the service
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James Clark

Residence was not listed;
Enlisted on 3/17/1862 at Carroll, VA as a Private.
On 3/17/1862 he mustered into "D" Co. VA 29th Infantry
(date and method of discharge not given)
He was listed as:
* On rolls 12/15/1864 (place not stated)
Other Information:
born in Surry County, NC
(Born 1837. Living in Tazewell, VA in 1903)

Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- The Virginia Regimental Histories Series

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29th Regiment, Virginia Infantry

29th Infantry Regiment was authorized in November, 1861, and was to contain seven companies under Colonel A.C. Moore and three companies at Pound Gap. However, this organization never took place. Moore's five companies from Abingdon and companies raised in the spring of 1862 evidently made up the nine-company regiment. It was assigned to the Valley District, Department of Northern Virginia, then moved to Kentucky where it was engaged at Middle Creek. Later it saw action in Western Virginia and for a time served in North Carolina under General French. In March, 1863, it totalled 732 men. Attached to General Corse's Brigade the unit participated in Longstreet's Suffolk Expedition and during the Gettysburg Campaign was on detached duty in Tennessee and North Carolina. In the spring of 1864 it returned to Virginia and took its place in the Petersburg trenches north and south of the James River and ended the war at Appomattox. Many were lost at Sayler's Creek, and only 1 officer and 27 men surrendered on April 9, 1865. The field officers were Colonels James Giles and Alfred C. Moore; Lieutenant Colonels Alexander Haynes, William Leigh, and Edwin R. Smith; and Majors Ebenezer Bruster, William R.B. Horne, and Isaac White.
http://www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/regiments.cfm

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29th Virginia Infantry Regiment, "The Hogs of Cold Harbor," by Richard Lee Fulgham, M.A. "This book is a discovery. It gave me so close a sense of what it was like to be a Confederate soldier in the Civil War that I began to think of my own army experience. Old fears old excitements, even memories of my old equipment, and with it all, vivid as the sound of gunfire, came the smell of battle in the air of the book. I loved reading The Hogs of Cold Harbor. I was in the Civil War on the Southern side. That is no small education for a Northerner like me." -Norman Mailer

"The wild hogs of Virginia are vicious. They attack, kill and devour. They show no mercy and eat their victims alive. The wild hogs are smart. They strategize with their enemies. They are worthy adversaries. But the wild hogs have honor. They will not hurt or destroy their own. In the minds of some, this last, simple fact raises the wild hogs of Virginia to an ethical level far above that of Man. A hog will not kill its own. But Man will and has. The Civil War brought man against man, family against family, and brother against brother. Some fought for their God, others for freedom and liberty, still others to protect their homes and loved ones. Young men fought for the pride of their land and country and heritage. But in the battlefields, looking upon the mountains of dead and wounded, seeing the enemy’s face and recognizing it as your own, a man begins to question the true meaning of honor. As the wild pigs feast upon the slaughtered masses of men, yet show compassion and solitude with their own kind, field soldiers may begin to look deep into their souls at their own morality and purpose. John Henry Hess joined the confederate army with his heart filled with pride. He would fight for his country, for his wife and unborn child, and for the right of the Lord to rule over His great land. There was not a Rebel more proud than Johnny Hess was. But in those dark fields, young Johnny Hess came to realize that there were stunning similarities between Man and Animal. The body of a man, blown apart by gunfire, is almost identical to that of a hog. There was little difference between the yearly slaughter of the farm hogs and the slaughter of men on the battlefield. Except that a hog would not kill its own, as he had done. The Hogs of Cold Harbor implores readers to question our history as well as themselves. Author and historian Richard Lee Fulgham, M.A. crafted this haunting tale of the good and evil that dwells within us all based on the diaries of Southwest Virginian John Henry Hess, Pvt., CSA (Company G, 29th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Pickett’s Division, Longstreet’s Corps, 1862-1864). Is Man truly no better than the animals he commands and destroys? The Hogs of Cold Harbor is a powerful, haunting story in which Richard Lee Fulgham delves deep into the timeless questions of our existence. Are we Man? Are we Animal? And what is the difference? About the Author Richard Lee Fulgham, M.A. grew up in the Deep South and remembers all too well the world he describes in The Hogs of Cold Harbor: The Civil War Saga of Private Johnny Hess, CSA. He served upon the USS Raleigh during the Vietnam era and later earned his bachelor’s degree from Columbus State University in Georgia and his master’s degree ten years later from the University of Kentucky. Mr. Fulgham has published dozens of articles in national magazines and authored four traditionally published books: Appalachian Genesis, Man’s Laughter, The Embracing Woods, and Lion: Nietzsche Contra Christ. Mr. Fulgham is a member of Sons of Confederate Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and is a charter member of The Norman Mailer Society. A native of Georgia, the author and his wife, Janet, currently live in Bel Air, Maryland.

Originally published in 2005 by Whitmore Publishing Co., 926 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 ISBN # 0-87426-058-2 341 pages, includes Appendix with passages from War Diary of John Henry Hess, cost $ 29.00. You can contact the author directly at Richard Fulgham Click to view Dustjacket -- Back of Book
http://www.mosocco.com/va.html

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