James Acord
(1845 - 1926)

Missouri Confederate Home
Higginsville, Lafayette Co., Missouri


Missouri Archives Civil War Database:
James Acord, Confederate – Index of Service Records, Box 94, Reel s726, Office of Adjutant General.
Confederate Home Application on file.

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American Civil War Soldiers Record:
James F. Acord, VA Confederacy, Unit No. 742. Distinguished Service.
Residence Swoope’s Depot, Virginia. Enlisted as a Private on 15 March 1862.
Drafted in Co. F, 5th Infantry Regiment Virginia on 15 March 1862.
Deserted on 1 March 1863 (estimated day) at Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Sentenced to be shot on 6 March 1863; sentence suspended on 26 May 1863.
Sick on 5 August 1863 at Castle Thunder Prison, Richmond, Virginia.
Prisoner of war (POW) on 12 May 1864 at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia.
Confined on 15 May 1864 at Elmira, New York. Released on 15 May 1865 at Elmira, New York.

James Acord, VA Confederacy, Unit No. 804. Distinguished Service.
Residence Wyoming Co., West Virginia. Enlisted as Corporal 4th class 18 May 1863.
Listed on rolls 1 April 1864; absent, without leave on rolls 1 August 1864.
Prisoner of war (POW) on 1 April 1865 at Fayetteville, West Virginia. Confined on 3 April 1865 (estimated day) at Camp Chase, Ohio. Released 13 June 1865.

James Franklin Acord, VA Confederacy, Unit 742.
Enlisted as a Private on 3 March 1864 in Co. F, 5th Infantry Regiment Virginia.
Prisoner of war (POW) on 6 April 1865 at Burkville, Virginia. Confined on 9 April 1865 at Point Lookout, Maryland. Released on 19 June 1865.

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Civil War Service Records:
James Acord, Confederate. Private in Co. T, Hounshell’s Battalion Virginia Cavalry (Partisan Rangers).

James Acord, Confederate. Inducted in as Corporal; discharged as Private in Co. C, 45th Battalion Virginia Infantry.

James F. Acord, Confederate. Private in Co. F., 5th Virginia Infantry.

J.F. Acord, Confederate. Private in Co. F, 5 Virginia Infantry. Notes: Jacob F. Acord.