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(c. 1839 - ?)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A 22 year old railroad conductor living in Montgomery, he enlisted there as Private, Company D (later E), 6th Alabama Infantry on 15 May 1861. He was appointed Corporal, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862
The rest of the War
He was on furlough home to the end of 1862. He was appointed First Sergeant, date not given. He was sick in May-June 1864 and wounded in August, place not given. He was furloughed in September but was back with his Company by December. He was admitted to a Petersburg, VA hospital in April 1865.
References & notes
His service from the State of Alabama.1 His wounding on South Mountain is also in a casualty list for Rodes' Brigade in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser of 8 October 1862. 1864 information from Alfred C. Young's The Complete Roster and Service Records of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia during the Overland Campaign (2019). Personal details from the US Census of 1860.
Birth
c. 1839 in AL
1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /civilwar/soldier.cfm?id=68353, etc. [AotW citation 25654]