LANE, JAMES - Appointed 2nd Corporal of Company E. 1st Brigade of Georgia State Troops on October 8, 1861. Roll dated April 8, 1862, last on file, shows him present. Mustered out April 1862. Elected 2nd Lieutenant of Company E. of the 55th Regiment of Georgia Infantry on May 3, 1862; 1st Lieutenant on September 12, 1862. Captured at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee on September 9, 1863. Released at Johnson's Island, Ohio on 12, 1865. Born in Early County, Georgia on November 12, 1837. (Ref. "Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865", transcribed by Betty and Bernie Johnson)