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"Jerry"
(c. 1842 - ?)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted at in Burke County, GA on 4 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 48th Georgia Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to both thighs (or side) and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 22 October and transferred to a private house for further treatment on 3 November. He was sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore, date not given, and was transferred to Fortress Monroe, VA on 13 March 1863 for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Lynchburg on 18 March and furloughed home for 90 days soon after.
He was back with his unit by November 1863 and was wounded again, at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 14 May 1864. He was afterward on detail at Gordonsville, VA into September and was retired to the Invalid Corps on 24 December 1864. He was paroled at Augusta, GA on 20 May 1865.
After the War
By 1880 he was a farmer in Burke County, GA.
References & notes
His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He is on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862, as missing in action, with further wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Elizabeth Attaway (1858-) in January 1876 and they had 6 children by 1898.
Birth
c. 1842 in GA
Death
Date not known; burial in Attaway Cemetery, Waynesboro, 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. 137 [AotW citation 31801]
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 31802]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #5.270 [AotW citation 31803]