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(c. 1829 - ?)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 29 year old farmer at Gibson in Glascock County, GA. He enlisted at Grahamville, GA on 5 May 1862 as a Private in Company A, 48th Georgia Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in the arm in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 26 September and furloughed home for 30 days on 8 October. He was back with his unit by February 1863 but then "sick in quarters." He was deemed disabled by his Sharpsburg wound and discharged on 31 March 1863. He reenlisted in the company on 19 October 1864 and was surrendered and paroled with them at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
In 1870 he was a farmer worker in Glascock County, but he was farming his own place there by 1880.
References & notes
His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. His birthplace from the Company Descriptive List. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880.
He married Ruth A Hattaway (1830-) in December 1849 and they had 7 children.
Birth
c. 1829; Jefferson 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. 111 [AotW citation 31754]
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 31756]