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James Amsley
Name: James Amsley
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 107th PA Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Franklin County, PA
Enlistment Date: 12/29/1861
Company: H
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted in Franklin Co., PA; Absent without Leave from 5/1852 to 6/1862; Captured and taken prisoner at Manassas Junction, VA; Paroled at Annapolis, MD on 8/31/1862; Died from wounds received at the battle of Gettysburg, PA on 7/9/1863
Source(s):
Soldiers’ Records for Franklin County, Pennsylvania, on the website “Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War,” Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia (http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/dossiers); United States Census Bureau, “1860 Federal Census of Franklin, Co., PA,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com.
