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"Jack"
(1821 - 1900)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted at Augusta, GA on 4 March 1862 and mustered as 3rd Corporal of Company C, 48th Georgia Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded in the head in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was appointed to 5th Sergeant on 5 October. He was sent to a hospital in Winchester, VA and then to Williston, SC on furlough, extended to 14 April 1863. He was transferred to Company H, 2nd South Carolina Artillery on 18 April 1863. He was surrendered and paroled at Augusta, GA on 20 May 1865.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a grocer in Augusta, GA. In 1900 he was listed as a landlord there.
References & notes
His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. 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 1870-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married California Nolin (1843-) in 1863 and they had a son John (1864-1884). He married again, her sister the widow Elizabeth Ann Nolin Willis (1826-1901) in 1875.
Birth
12/1821; Barnwell District, SC
Death
07/03/1900; Richmond County, GA; burial in Magnolia Cemetery, Augusta, GA
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 31779]
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 31780]