Location:
Foster Road
Butts County, Georgia County
N 34° 16.685 W087° 49.465
FAG: 34006
Date of Visit: December 2, 2012
James H. Jester
Son of Abner & Angelina Jester
Was born
July 13 1839
Departed this life
July 13, 1862
Aged 23 years
He was a soldier in the Confederate Army and died (remaining text is below ground level)
James was a Sergeant in Company D of the 31st Georgia. This regiment was organized in Cusseta, Georgia in 1861 and served in Savannah. James joined Company D in Savannah in October 1861. In July of 1862 the regiment was brigaded under General Lawton in Virginia. Sergeant Jester was admitted to the University Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia. On July 14 he died of febrile typhoides (typhoid fever).
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama. Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for James H. Jester, 31st Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 4, 2021, (http://www.fold3.com).
- “Battle Unit Details: 31st Alabama” National Park Service, accessed October 4, 2021, https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battle-units-detail.htm?battleUnitCode=CGA0031RI
