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(? - 1863)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 53rd Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted at Zebulon, Pike County, GA as a Private in Company H, 53rd Georgia Infantry on 5 May 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was furloughed home in October 1862 and was listed as absent without leave by August 1863, but was wounded by a gunshot to his brain, probably at Gettysburg, PA, in July 1863 and captured at Williamsport, MD. He died of his wounds in the US Army Seminary Hospital, Hagerstown, MD on 16 July 1863.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online via fold3.
Death
07/16/1863; Hagerstown, MD
1 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 27414]