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An obituary for Captain James M. Cathey, dated Waynesville, North Carolina, October 4, 1864, and signed by “J. F. F.” Captain Cathey of the North Carolina 25th Infantry Regiment, Company F, age 25 and the son of Col. Joseph Cathey and Nancy Cathey, was killed July 30, 1864 at Petersburg, Virginia (North Carolina Troops, vol.7, p. 408 indicates he died at “the Crater”). The brother mentioned in the obituary, Lieut. Joseph Turner Cathey, died September 1, 1863 (W.C. Allen, The Annals of Haywood County, North Carolina, 1935, p. 557).