Civil War: Private, CSA, Enlisted in Company L, 6th Arkansas Calvary, Monticello, AR on 1 January 1863. Absent without leave from 15 June 1863, present to 29 February 1864. Captured at Mound City, KS, on 24 October 1864, confined at U.S. Military prison, Rock Island, IL. Exchanged at City Point, VA on 10 March 1865; born in Mississippi on 9 August 1828; died in Arkansas on 3 January 1894; buried in Deal Cemetery, Drew County, AR; widow Martha A. (West) Meredith filed Arkansas pension application #16862 from Drew County, AR on 15 August 1901; listed in Drew County 1860 census, occupation farmhand. [ 1860 CENSUS, Veasey Township Household# 645-688 668 668 James Merideth 29 M Farm Laborer Mississippi Martha Merideth (nee West) 24 F Alabama Sarah E. Merideth 6/12 F Arkansas
