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Status: Complete

Last Name: James

First Name: Ollie

Middle Name:

Army Serial Number: 3686474

Race: African American

Branch: Army or Marines

Town or City of Residence: Greencastle

County of Residence:

Place of Birth: Greencastle, Indiana

Date of Birth: 01/28/1888

Age:

Is this card a reverse side? (Indicated by "-B"): no

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Arnie

Date of birth: "Jan 1888". Put "01/xx/1888" to match 'MM/DD/YYY(Y)' format: "Dates: Use the format MM/DD/YYY for dates."

Indiana State Archives

Hello Buell! Thank you for doing so! Additional records show that this soldier's full date of birth to be 01/28/1888. The transcription has been updated accordingly. In future, when filling out dates that are not complete use the format MM/DD/YYYY and just fill in the information given. For example, for this date of birth the format would be 01/DD/1888. -MH