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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Julius Alsbury Kidd

(1843 - 1934)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 17 year old on his parent's large farm in LaGrange, Mountville District, Troup County, GA. He enlisted as a Private in Company K, 13th Georgia Infantry, on 8 July 1861 in Griffin, GA but was discharged for disability on 6 October 1861. He reenlisted on 10 January 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was on wounded furlough to 16 January 1863 and was then detailed as a Brigade courier through at least November 1863. He was furloughed home to LaGrange for "emaciation and debility" from March 1864 to at least May 1864.

After the War

In 1870 he was a farm worker living with his parents in LaGrange.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and Henderson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Susan S. Benson (1848-1869) and they had a daughter Susan in 1869. He married again, her sister Sarah P. "Sallie" Benson (1852-1930) and they had a daughter Devana A. Kidd (1871-1956) - likely named for Company K's Lieutenant, later Captain, Divany A Kidd (relative?, killed 1865).

Birth

01/13/1843; Troup County, GA

Death

01/15/1934; Fulton County, GA

Notes

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 28513]

2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28514]

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