Ken, Any stories You can pass on I would greatly appreciate. Here is one for you----
James left the 7th Miss. Inf Regt. sometime after that. date. I have certificate of discharge from the 7th Miss. but it is not readable.
James surfaces in the Confederate Army again in the 3rd Miss. Inf. Regt. Co I. He enlisted at Brookhaven, Miss. for two years
Muster Roll for Jan. Feb. of 1863 -- Present for duty
Muster Roll for July 1863 to April 1864, only show he is present for duty.
Muster Roll for July and Aug. 1864 -- Absent -- July 3, 1864, in St. Mary's Hospital, La Grange, Ga., with diarrhea, returned to duty July 7, 1864.
July 20, 1864 -- Absent from wound received in action near Atlanta (Peachtree Creek) July 20/64. he is shown on a register of patients admitted to Ocmulgee Hospital, Macon Ga., July 22, 1864. Another card shows that he was wounded at the battle of Peachtree Creek severly .
Muster Roll Aug 31, 1864 to Feb 28,1865 -- Absent wounded and captured at Nashville.
Register of Prisoners of War, Department of the Cumberland -- captured at Pulaski, Tenn, Dec . 25, 1865. James was forwarded to Louisville, Ky. Feb. 14, 1865. This is the Battle of Franklin, Tenn. A related story about James A. Pittman, can be found in the book "To Live and Die In Dixie." by H. Grady Howell (all rights reserved)
A card from the U.S.A., General Hospital, Nashville, Tenn shows that James was admitted Feb. 10, 1865 with a simple fl. Rt thigh (slg (?).
There is a place on this card for listing missile, it is filled in Can. Ball
Feb 17, 1865 he is shown being to Champ Chase, Ohio. He was received at Camp Chase Feb. 18, 1865. This is one of the most notorious Union Prisons of the war.
James is shown taking the Oath Of Allegiance at Camp Chase, Ohio, June 13, 1865. These facts are noted on his card.
Residence : Marion Co., Miss.
Complexion: Fair
Hair: Dark
Eyes: Blue
Height: 6 ft. 2in.
Where Captured: Pulaski, Tenn.
When Captured : Dec. 24, 1865 ( I suppose either day the 24 or 25 of Dec. would be correct, depends on the source used)
Pittman notes found at:
Descendants of Captain Thomas Pittman
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/i/l/Beverly--C-Williamson/index.html
Facts and notes on Elizabeth Stanford found at;
Descendants of Joshua Stanford
http://www.carolyar.com/FamRecMain.html#Stanford
Descendants of Captain Thomas Pittman, Sr., by James Calvin "J.C." Pittman, Sr., published privately, 1989; used with permission. The James A. Pittman family is outlined on page 73-75. "The following story was told of James A. Pittman by Janie Elizabeth Pittman Mullins as told to her by her grandmother Julia Ann Lott Pittman:
"James (called Jimmy) got his nose shut off and his face was horribly disfigured during the Civil War. He walked home after the peace was signed. It took him three years and he was ragged, lice infested, long hair, long beard, filthy and very thin. One day Granpa Billy (William Pittman) was in the back chopping wood and the children were playing in the yard. Grandma Julie (Julia Ann Lott Pittman) was sitting on the front porch in a rocking chair sewing on a quilt when a horribly disfigured dirty begger-looking man approached the front picket-fence. When Grandma Julia looked up and saw him she got frightened and jumped up to run. The man called to her saying, "It's me Jimmy." She then started running to the gate, with joy to see him when he told her not too, that he wasn't fit for women folk. He then saw Grandpa Billy (William Pittman) in the backyard and told Grandma Julia to send one of the children to the back to tell "Billy to bring me a full changing of clothes, the sheep shears, and a gourd of lye soap down to the creek." James then started to walk on to the creek but turned back and asked Grandma Julia if she could fix him a little something to eat that he was hungry as all he'd eaten was what he could catch with his hands."