Photo by Barry Wyatt - AutaugaRifles@netscape.net
6th Alabama Photo Album
| DURDEN, James M. (Private, Company G, 6th Alabama
Volunteer Infantry Regiment) James was a 23 year old single
farmer when he enlisted. He was born in Autauga County, Alabama in 1838. His
parents were Lucinda Durden (b. 1816, in North Carolina) and Elias D. Durden,
(b.1800, a farmer born in Virginia). He had 3 brothers and 4 sisters, Franklin
(b.1836), Nelson (b. 1843), John (b. 1846), and Susan, (b.1849), Rebecca
b,1858, Mary b. 1848, and Frances b, 1859. James enlisted on September
1, 1861 at Sangster's Cross Roads Virginia. He was wounded September 14, 1862 at the
battle at Sharpsburg, (South Mountain), in Maryland. He was shot through the
right leg. He was furloughed at Independence, Alabama and put on the list of
absent enlisted men, November 1862. From military records, James was present
at camp for payroll call on September 1, 1864 at Bunker Hill, Virginia, and at
Camp Rodes, Virginia on February 1, 1865. After the war, James resumed farming
in Autauga County, and was married in 1867 to Elvira R Golson, b.1839. Her
parents were Charles W. Golson, a farmer, b.1804 in So. Carolina, d. Before 1870,
and Eliza (_____) Golson, b.1806 in So. Carolina. Elvira had a sister, Julia,
b.1833, a brother Charles, b.1842, and a brother Arney, b. Abt.1839.
James and Elvira had four children: John Louis Durden, b. Jan 21,1869, d.
March 2, 1949 (my wife's grandfather), Eliza L. Durden, b.1872, Mary E.
Durden, b.1877, and James F. Durden, b. Abt. 1878. Beginning in 1889, James
made application to the State of Alabama for relief, "by solders
Maimed of Disabled during the Late War, under Act approved February 28,
1889". In his last application, in 1896, he listed his occupation
as Farming and his post office address as Milton, Autauga County, Alabama. The
dates of death for James and his wife Elvira, are not known. Their graves are
located in Old Harmony Cemetery near Independence, Autauga County, Alabama. Donald
and Margaret Rathgeber DRathgeber@peoplepc.com
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