Name: MESSER, JAMES
Rank: Private
Enlisted: 3 March 1862, age 18
Service History: Absent sick: Winchester VA, 1862/05/25; Cross Keys VA, 1862/06/08; Cold Harbor, 1862/06/27; Malvern Hill, 1862/07/02; Cedar Mt. VA, 1862/08/09; Hazel River, 1862/08/23.
Date of Birth: abt 1843	Place of Birth: Alabama
Date of Death: 1 October 1862 (of disease)	Place of Death: Lynchburg, Virginia
Buried: Virginia
Father: Dempsey Messer (b abt 1800 in Georgia)
Mother: Anicy Nolls  (b abt 1810 in Georgia)
Spouse(s): Not married
Children:
Occupation: Farm laborer
Residence(s): Dale County, Alabama
Other: Claim filed 1863/01/15 by father Dempsey Messer
Photographs:
Submitter: Georgia V. Fleming	E-mail: hyacinth@ala.net