Pvt. (CSA) James A. Sidebottom

Name James A Sidebottom
Enlistment Date 15 Apr 1863
Enlistment Place Logan County, West Virginia
Enlistment Rank Private
Muster Date 15 Apr 1863
Muster Place Virginia
Muster Company D
Muster Regiment 36th Infantry
Muster Regiment Type Infantry
Muster Information Enlisted
Casualty Date 5 Jun 1864
Casualty Place Piedmont, Virginia
Type of Casualty Wounded
Casualty Information Left arm amputated
Side of War Confederacy
Title The Virginia Regimental Histories Series

after the war, Jim had a succession of two wives and taught school:

"When the Civil War was over and the soldiers had returned to their homes, they immediately set about to erect a school house. They built a hewn log house on the lower side of Bill Ellis’ hollow. That was the first free school building erected within the present limits of the city of Logan. In that house one-armed Jim Sidebottom wielded the rod and taught the three R’s. He was strict and a good teacher in his day. That house served as an institution of learning till in 1883 the Board of Education bought about an acre on the hill where the brick school houses now stand from Hickman White. A few years later additional land was bought of John B. Floyd in order to get a haul road from Coal street opposite the residence of Joe Perry’s to the school building. The old frame building was erected on the hill in 1883, and it furnished ample room for the children for more than two decades."
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