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Confederate veteran's grave marked
Hicks was born in DeKalb County, Ga. but moved to Clarke County by 1836. James married Sarah Elizabeth Presnall on Jan. 19, 1854. They had only two sons, John Westward and Ambrose Bryant by 1860, and these two sons eventually had 20 grandchildren, many great-grandchildren, and numerous great-great-grandchildren. Farming was his trade and he owned several hundred acres of land. James' pension papers state he signed up to fight for the Confederate Army at Amity in Clarke County in April of 1861 at the age of 29. He enlisted as a Private in Company A of the 38th Regiment of Alabama which was known as Ketchum's Regiment in March of 1862, and he is listed on the muster roll at Camp Holt near Mobile on June 12, 1862 and remained mostly in the vicinity of Mobile guarding the home front until February 1863. Later the unit was transferred to Tullahoma, Tenn. Here, he most likely heard enemy fire for the first time on June 24, 1863. He fought in battles around Chattanooga and at Chickamauga, where he was wounded, and shared in the operations of the Atlanta Campaign. He was discharged in May of 1865. Sarah Hicks died in 1886 and he remarried, marrying Mary J. Clark in 1887. He died March 16, 1904.
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