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(c. 1839 - 1862)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 5th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as Private in Company H, 5th Alabama Infantry on 24 March 1862 at Antioch, Pickens County.
On the Campaign
He was probably wounded and captured in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died (of disease?) while a prisoner in Frederick, MD on 19 (or 17) September 1862. His widow filed for his final pay of $89.16 in May 1863 and received it in June 1864.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to Miles Krisman for the pointer to McGahey; Miles' research has him killed outright on South Mountain. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Nancy Dorenda Keasler (1843-1925) in October 1859 and they had 2 children.
Birth
c. 1839; Pickens County, AL
Death
09/19/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, 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 27964]