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(1838 - 1874)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Raised in Thomas County Georgia, he was helping to work his father's farm in Grimes County, TX in 1860. He enlisted as First Corporal of Company G, 4th Texas Infantry on 19 July 1861 in Grimes County and was promoted to 5th Sergeant on 20 November.
On the Campaign
He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was 2nd Sergeant by January 1864 and had a 30 day furlough (to Georgia) in February 1864, but had been reduced to Private by June 1864. He was paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
In 1870 he was back in Thomas County, GA and was a dry goods and grain merchant in Thomasville.
References & notes
Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1850-1870. His death place from an announcement in the Thomasville Times of 27 June 1874. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His stone has him in Company G of the "12th Texas Brigade," a nonexistent unit.
One of 4 Blackshear brothers in Company G.
He married Harriett Eliza Winn (1840-1888) in Georgia in February 1864 and they had 4 children.
Birth
01/27/1838; Thomas County, GA
Death
06/21/1874; Thomasville, GA; burial in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Thomasville, GA
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 159 - 161 [AotW citation 1829]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 26689]