Name: WELCH, JAMES M.
Rank: Private
Enlisted: 3 July 1861 at Westville; age 18
Service History: Present: Winchester, Va.; Cross Keys, Va.; Cold Harbor; Malvern Hill; Cedar Mountain, Va.; Hazel River; Manassas Junction; Manassas Plains, 28-30 Aug 1862; Chantilly; Harpers Ferry; Sharpsburg; Shepherdstown; Fredericksburg. Captured at Gettysburg and never exchanged
Date of Birth: abt 1843	Place of Birth: Georgia
Date of Death:	Place of Death:
Buried:
Father: (possibly) Simeon Welch (b abt 1816 in Georgia)
Mother: (possibly) Martha // (b abt 1827 in Alabama)
Spouse(s): Single at time of enlistment
Children:
Occupation:
Residence(s): Westville, Dale County, Alabama
Other: I believe he may be the son of Simeon Welch and Martha // ;  James appears age 6 in their household on the 1850 Pike County, Alabama, Census; James M. is with them age 15 on the 1860 Henry County, Alabama, Census.  In 1880 Simeon and Martha are in Dale County.
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Submitter: Georgia V. Fleming	E-mail: hyacinth@ala.net