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(1841 - 1914)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Son of an Irish-born brick and stone mason, in 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his father and 3 brothers at Marion in Twiggs County, GA; his father owned 4 slaves. He enlisted there on 4 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 48th Georgia Infantry. He was appointed a Musician on 12 August.
On the Campaign
He was "severely" wounded in the hip and thigh in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was detailed to the brigade band by August 1863 and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer in Twiggs County. In 1910 he was a salesman in a drug store in Pulaski County.
References & notes
His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. His wounding from a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910.
He married Elizabeth Bell King (1852-1870) and they had a son James. He married again, Martha Jane Long (1851-1916) in August 1871 and they had 9 more.
His brothers Patrick (b. Ireland 1835) and Thomas (1845-1907) were also in Company G of the 48th; Patrick died of an infection in Lynchburg, VA in December 1862, Thomas enlisted in 1864.
Birth
12/25/1841; New York City, NY
Death
05/14/1914
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 5, p. 167 [AotW citation 31818]
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 31819]