Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 10th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
From Chattahoochee County, he enlisted as a Private in Company C, 10th Georgia Infantry on 18 May 1861 at Cusseta, GA.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died on Lavinia Grove's Farm near Sharpsburg, MD and was probably originally buried there and reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
Death
Date not known; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD
1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4707]
2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 26235]