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| Private James Madison McCain |
| Company G, Thirty First Alabama Infantry Regiment |
| Confederate States Army, April 20, 1862 - July 9, 1863 |
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| Born: 1843, in Georgia. |
| Died : January, 1903, in Clay County, Alabama. |
| Grave Site: Mount Ararat Cemetery, Bluff Springs area of Clay County, Alabama. |
| NOTE: Confederate grave marker states " J.M. McCain, Co. G, 31 Ala. Inf. C.S.A." |
| NOTE: James, John, and Little Berry McCain were brothers. |
| They enlisted in the same unit, on the same day. |
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| James Madison McCain was my direct blood line great-great-grandfather on my father's side of the family. He enlisted in Captain Chapman's Ninth Company with his two older brothers John McCain, and Little Berry McCain, on April 20, 1862 at Talladega, Alabama. He enlisted for three years, "or the war". This volunteer company later became Company G of the Thirty First Alabama Infantry Regiment when it mustered into Confederate service at a place named Camp Goldthwaite on May 7, 1862. |
| He served with the regiment during the various campaigns and battles in which it was involved until he was taken prisoner as a member of the garrison of Vicksburg, Mississippi when the city surrendered after a long and cruel siege by Union forces. The garrison troops were "paroled" after signing oaths to not bear arms against the United States "Until duly exchanged by the proper authorities". A copy of the "parole oath" filled out with his name does not have his signature or "mark" in the place designated. |
| What ever the case may be concerning the "parole oath", he returned home after the fall of Vicksburg, and did not return to service when the regiment was re-organized later that year. |
| According to family "lore" he received some type of injury to one of his legs during the siege of Vicksburg. This injury left him disabled to some degree, and he was not able to perform physical labor for the remainder of his life. |
| He received his "final parole" on May 19, 1865 at Talladega, Alabama from Brevet Brigadier General M.H. Chrysler, Commander of United States Forces at Talladega, Alabama. |
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| Private John McCain |
| Company G, Thirty First Alabama Infantry Regiment, |
| Confederate States Army, April 20, 1862 - July 4, 1863. |
| Born: March 19, 1829, in Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia. |
| Died: Date unknown, in Clay County, Alabama. |
| Grave Site: Old Liberty Hill Cemetery, Millerville area of Clay County , Alabama. |
| NOTE: Confederate grave marker states, " John McCain, Co. G, |
| 31 Ala. Inf C.S.A." |
| NOTE: John McCain was the oldest brother of my great-great-grandfather James Madison McCain. |
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| John McCain served with the Thirty First Alabama Infantry Regiment with his two younger brothers James Madison McCain, and Little Berry McCain until he was captured at the Battle of Champion's Hill in Mississippi, on May 16, 1863. He was sent to a Union army prison camp at Fort Delaware, Delaware, and arrived there on June 9, 1863. He remained there until being released in a "prisoner exchange" on July 4, 1863. |
| After being released from the prison camp, he returned home, and did not return to service for the remainder of the war. |
| He also received his "final parole" from Brevet Brigadier General M.H. Chrysler, Commander of United States Forces at Talladega, Alabama, on May 19, 1865. |
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| Private L.B.( Little Berry) McCain |
| Company G, Thirty First Alabama Infantry Regiment |
| Confederate States Army, April 20, 1862 - March 26, 1864. |
| Born: 1831, in Georgia. |
| Died: March 26, 1864, in Marietta, Georgia. |
| Grave Site: Unknown at this time. Possibly in the Marietta/Atlanta, Georgia area. |
| NOTE: Little Berry McCain was the second oldest brother of James Madison McCain. |
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| Little Berry McCain also served with the Thirty First Alabama Infantry Regiment until it was captured at the fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi. |
| Apparently he was the only brother who was in good enough health to return to service when the regiment re-organized late in 1863. |
| While serving with the regiment during the campaign for the defense of Atlanta, Georgia he was hospitalized with what proved to be a fatal case of pneumonia. |
| He died March 26, 1864 at Gilmer Hospital in Marietta, Georgia. He is buried somewhere in the Atlanta/Marietta, Georgia area. |
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