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James T. Blankenship resided in Ashe County and at the age of 29, enlisted in Company E in Irdell County on August 15, 1862. He died in a hospital in Lynchburg, Virginia, on or about January 13, 1863, of typhoid fever. Private Blankenship is buried in the Confederate Section of the Old City Cemetery in Lynchburg.