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(1831 - 1903)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted at Holmesville on 23 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 27 May 1861 in Corinth. He was promoted to 4th Corporal in about August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the leg in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in hospitals to 20 February 1863, then on wounded furlough, but was listed as absent without leave by June 1863 and as a deserter by February 1864.
After the War
In 1880 he was a farmer in Lawrence County, MS but by 1900 was farming at Wesson in Copiah County, MS.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as Alexander J. Tarbutton. His Sharpsburg wound also from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Cleopatra Pearson (1846-1909) in 1867 and they had 12 children.
Birth
02/05/1831; Sandersville, GA
Death
12/30/1903; Wesson, MS; burial in Wesson Cemetery, Wesson, MS
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 29644]