SOURCE: Timen Stiddem Society newsletter, Issue No. 15, Fall 2001/Winter 2002, pg. 2.

MILITARY: He enlisted in December of 1861, at Mobile, Alabama in Co., F, 25th Alabama Infantry Regiment. It's not known if he was present when his regiment saw its first action at Shiloh in April of 1862. He is shown as being "sick" at Cleveland, Tennessee, when it is first noted in his service record. On 15 May 1864, Private Sted­ham was captured at Resaca, Geor­gia. A week later, he was impris­oned at Camp Morton, located at Indianapolis, Indiana. He remained there for ten months before dying of "acute dysentery" on 5 Mar 1865, one month prior to the close of the war. Private Steadham was buried at Green Lawn Cemetery in grave number ­1488. In 1933, the bodies of all Confederate prisoners were exhumed and reburied in a mass grave at Crow Hill Cemetery, known today as Confederate Mound. The information on James M. Stedham is paraphrased from the January 1996 page of the Confederate Calendar, ­produced by Confederate Calendar Works of Austin, Texas.

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