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(1840 - 1930)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as a Private in Company K, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 at Griffin, GA.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot through the right hand in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in a Richmond hospital by 23 September 1862 and sent on to Lynchburg the next day. He was wounded again, shot in the right shoulder and lung at Winchester, VA on 19 September 1864. He was in a hospital in Staunton, VA by August 1864, and on furlough in Marietta County, GA to at least February 1865.
After the War
In 1893, and to at least 1907, he was living in Campbell County, GA. By 1920 and to 1930 he lived with his daughter Alice and her family at Tecumseh in Cherokee County, AL.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from Henderson.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1920 & 1930, and his 1893 and later pension applications, online from the Georgia Archives; in it he says he was a Lieutenant by the end of the war, but there's no mention of a commission in his military file. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
03/28/1840 in GA
Death
07/12/1930; burial in Mount Vernon Baptist Church Cemetery, Fairburn, GA
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 28606]
2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28607]