Father: Julius Caesar Alford (1808-1899)
Mother: Mary Jane Cammack (1815-1896)
11/16/1850 - Lived with parents and sibs in Gallatin, Copiah Co., MS (indexed in the 1850 U. S. Census as James Alford)
08/01/1860 - Teacher, Copiah Co., MS (lived with the Archibald Steel family; indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as "James I Alford")
05/26/1861 - Enlisted as Pvt., 16th MS Infantry, Corinth, MS
08/31/1861 - Pvt., Co. C, 16th MS Infantry
09/23/1861 - As Pvt., Co. C. 16th MS Infantry, on detached service as a Nurse and a Hospital Steward, Warrenton, VA
10/31/1861 - As Pvt., Co. C, 16th MS Infantry, on detached service, Warrenton, VA
12/12/1861 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Mississippi State Hospital, Warrenton, VA
12/12/1861 - In a written request to Capt. Rice W. Payne, Provost Marshall, Warrenton, VA, "Dear Sir, Dr. J. T. Alford, connected with this hospital wishes to visit the 16th Miss Reg. on business connected with the hospital. Please furnish him [a] permit to pass. Very Truly, J. W. C. Smith, Asst Surg, Miss Hospl [Warrenton, VA]."
01/31/1862 - As Pvt., Co. C. 16th MS Infantry, on detached service on hospital duty, Warrenton, VA
04/14/1862 - Re-enlisted as Pvt., Co. C, 16th MS Infantry under the Conscription Act
06/15/1862 - As Pvt., Co. C. 16th MS Infantry, on detached service as a physician
07/23/1862 - Admitted as a patient at C. S. A. General Hospital, Charlottesville, VA, with a diagnosis of morbus varii [Note: Morbus was a prefix for a disease. Varii may have been an abbreviation for varicocele which is an enlargement of the veins within the scrotum.].
10/31/1862 - As Pvt., Co. C. 16th MS Infantry, on detached service
12/31/1862 - As Pvt., Co. C. 16th MS Infantry, on detached service
02/28/1863 - As Pvt., Co. C. 16th MS Infantry, on detached service as a nurse, Gen. Hospital,
Division No. 1, Charlottesville, VA [S. O. 59/12 Dept. & Army of Northern Virginia - Gen. R. E. Lee]
04/30/1863 - As Pvt., Co. C. 16th MS Infantry, on detached service
05/26/1863 - Returned to duty as Pvt., Co. C. 16th MS Infantry
06/30/1863 - Pvt., Co. C. 16th MS Infantry
08/31/1863 - Pvt., Co. C. 16th MS Infantry
10/31/1863 - Pvt., Co. C. 16th MS Infantry
12/31/1863 - Pvt., Co. C. 16th MS Infantry
01/31/1864 - As Pvt., Co. C, 16th MS Infantry, forfeited one month's pay by sentence of
Regimental Court Martial
04/30/1864 - Pvt., Co. C. 16th MS Infantry
05/18/1864 - Admitted to C. S. A. Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA, with a gunshot
wound of his right arm
05/28/1864 - Furloughed because of his wound
06/20/1864 - Married, Martha Eliza Traweek (1843-1869), Copiah Co., MS
08/31/1864 - On furlough because of his wound
10/31/1864 - Pvt., Co. C. 16th MS Infantry
01/27/1865 - "Deserted" [Note: This designation is not unusual in Confederate Compiled Service Records. Often this was not truly a desertion on the part of a soldier, but rather a failure of communication causing an error in the records.]
1866 - M.D. degree, Medical Department of the University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA (from: MS)
03/30/1869 - Wife, Martha, died in Copiah Co., MS (buried: Catching Cemetery, Copiah Co. MS; FindAGrave #26864201)
06/15/1870 - Practiced medicine, Copiah Co., MS (lived with two children; indexed in the 1870 U. S. Census as James Alford)
09/21/1870 - Married, Julia Catching Steele (1850-1916), Copiah Co., MS
1871 - Lived, Georgetown, MS
1874 - Practiced medicine, Georgetown, Copiah Co., MS
12/11/1876 - Elected to the Committee on Diphtheria at the meeting of the Medical Association of Copiah County [MS] and asked to prepare a "report on the best modes of prevention and cure"
04/13/1880 - Chairman, Executive Committee, Providence Camp Meeting (July 22- 28, 1880), near Rockport, Copiah Co., MS,
06/30/1880 - Practiced medicine, Beat 2, Copiah Co., MS (lived with wife, Julia, and four sons; indexed in the 1880 U. S. Census as James T. Alford)
1882 - Operated a general store with C. O. McKinnell in Rockport, Copiah Co., MS
08/00/1885 - Delegate from Rockport to the Democratic Convention of Copiah Co., MS
05/00/1886 - Chairman, Rockport [MS] Prohibition Club
1886,1890 - Practiced medicine, Rockport, Copiah Co., MS
1890 - Preceptor for his son, John Mosby Alford (1871-1957) in Copiah Co., Mississippi
04/04/1894 - Attended the annual meeting of the Mississippi State Medical Association, Jackson, MS
07/16/1894 - Died at the home of his father at Gallman, near Crystal Springs, Copiah Co., MS (buried: Alford Cemetery, Rockport, Copiah Co., MS; FindAGrave #18980338)
10/07/1896 - Mother, Mary Jane, died in Crystal Springs, Copiah Co., MS (buried: Crystal Springs Cemetery, Copiah Co., MS; FindAGrave #18980146)
10/15/1899 - Father, Julius, died in Crystal Springs, Copiah Co., MS (buried: Crystal Springs Cemetery, Copiah Co., MS; FindAGrave #18980035)
04/12/1916 - Widow, Julia, died in Rockport, Copiah Co., MS (buried: Alford Cemetery, Rockport, Copiah Co., MS; FindAGrave #18980431)

Patrick Roper provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
08/06/2020. Unpublished database.

The following was added by Patrick Roper, the creator of this memorial:

Son of Julius Caesar Alford # 18980035 and Mary Jane Cammack #18980146 He Married 23 June 1864 Georgetown , MS. Martha Eliza Traweek # 26864201 1843-1869 two children Daughter of Cornelius W. Traweek & Mary Rogers Catching, married second 29 Sept.1870 Georgetown , MS. Julia Catching Steele #18980431 1850-1916 five children , daughter of Archibald Steele # 26864317 & Eliza Harvey Catching # 5197876