Wood & Torbert Families - James Marion Hopper

James Marion Hopper

b. 8 December 1841

James Marion Hopper was born on 8 December 1841 in Alabama.
James Marion Hopper appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Summit PO, Blount County, Alabama, enumerated with his parents Lawson and Malinda Hopper, and other children Nettie (age 20), Curtis (21), Mary Ann (16), Early (11) and Margaret (7), and next to his brother Thomas (31) and assorted other Hoppers.
He enlisted at age 19 on 6 September 1862 at Brister's Cove or Guntersville, Marshall County, Alabama, as a private in Capt. Stephen R. Dunagan's Company B, 4th Alabama Cavalry Regiment (Russell's Rangers), CSA, and mustered in on 22 September near Taylor's Store, Tennessee, with a horse valued at $160 and equipment $15. He was captured on 27 June 1863 in Shelbyville, Tennessee, forwarded from Franklin, Tennessee, to Nashville, arriving 30 June/1 July, received at Camp Chase, Ohio, on 7 July 1863 from Louisville, Kentucky, and transferred on 14 July to Fort Delaware, Delaware, where he was held a prisoner of war. He appeared on a register of sick and wounded at USA Small Pox Hospital, Point Lookout, Maryland, admitted from camp on 16 December 1863, and returned to duty 18 January 1864. He was paroled at Point Lookout, Maryland.