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(1828 - 1918)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 29 year old farmer and owner of 1 slave at Wrightsville in Johnson County, GA. On 11 July 1861 he was elected Junior 2nd Lieutenant of the Johnson Greys - later Company F, 14th Georgia Infantry and he resigned on 16 October 1861. He was elected Captain of Company F, 48th Georgia Infantry on 4 March 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was furloughed home and returned to duty on 5 February 1863. He was wounded again, at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and captured there. He was in hospitals at Fayetteville, Harrisburg, and Chambersburg, PA (admitted 25 August), then the US Army General Hospital in York, PA from 14 to 25 January 1864, when he was sent to the post hospital at Fort McHenry in Baltimore. He joined the general population of prisoners there on 2 March and was transferred to Fort Delaware in June 1864. In August he was among the "Immortal 600" - Confederate officers sent to Federal posts in the South in retaliation for Confederates placing Union officers under fire at Charleston, SC; he was first at Hilton Head, SC then sent to Fort Pulaski, GA by October. He was returned to Fort Delaware in March 1865 and was released there on 12 June 1865 after taking an oath of allegiance to the United States.
After the War
By 1880 and to at least 1910 he was again a farmer at Wrightsville.
References & notes
His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound also on a casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Martha Ann Todd (1829-1863) in February 1848 and they had 6 children. He married again, Martha Battle McWhorter (1839-1926) and they had 5 more, including Robert Lee Kent (1870-1947), between 1866 and 1891.
At least one reference has him as the only Captain present with the regiment at Sharpsburg; but see also E.G. Scruggs, Co. A.
Birth
07/28/1828; Warren County, GA
Death
06/20/1918; burial in Kent-Dixon-Rowland Family Cemetery, Johnson County, GA
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 5, p. 147 [AotW citation 31730]
2 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 31731]