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(c. 1839 - 1864)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 21 year old miller living with brother Jordan, sister Arminda, and (relative?) Joseph Sutton at Ohoopee in Emanuel County, GA. He enlisted at Swainsboro, GA on 4 March 1862 and mustered as First Sergeant of Company H, 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 in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 26 September and returned to duty on 31 October 1862. He was wounded again, mortally, at the Crater near Petersburg, VA on 30 July 1864 and died there on 2 August 1864.
His father Abner filed for his final pay in October 1864.
References & notes
His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He is also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
His brother Jordan Mack Sutton (b. 1833), also in Company H of the 48th Infantry, was killed at Gettysburg, PA in July 1863.
Birth
c. 1839 in GA
Death
08/02/1864; Petersburg, VA; burial in Algerine Sutton Cemetery, Twin City, 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. 168 [AotW citation 31825]
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 31826]