James Erwin Spradley Military Record, Crenshaw, AL
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Confederate Military Record of James Erwin Spradley - Crenshaw Co., AL


James Erwin Spradley, Private, enlisted October 30, 1863, Greenville. "He
was listed on the regimental medical register while in Mobile on March 21,
1864, with rubeola (a). Two days later he was transferred to the general
hospital at Greenville. He was diagnosed with pneumonia on April 20, 1864,
and moved to the general hospital the next day. On July 4, he was wounded in
the right leg during the siege of Atlanta. He was listed as a farmer and 18
years old. On July 28, he was suffering from acute diarrhea. On August 3,
the diagnosis was feb int tert (b). He was diagnosed with acute diarrhea on
September 21 and transferred to the general hospital two days later." (1)
"He was at the surrender April 26, 1865, at Greensboro, North Carolina." (2)

(1) Register of Sick and Wounded of the 17th Alabama Volunteers 1907.
National Archives, Washington, D. C., filed as Chapter VIII, Volume 5,
handwritten journal.

(2) "Confederate Veterans Reunion" Greenville Advocate, Greenville, AL.
March 10, 1897.

(a) Rubeola: An acute, usually an infectious, disease, either measles or
German measles.

(b) feb int tert: An intermittent fever that occurs every three day,
probably malaria.

Note: All the above was gleaned from Illene D. Thompson and Wilbur E.
Thompson, The Seventeenth Alabama Infantry: A Regimental History and Roster
(Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books Inc., 2001).