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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Levi Alexander Callaway

(1839 - 1883)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861, and mustered as a Private in Company G, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded by a gunshot at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 4 October and sent home to Greenville, AL on 9 October 1862 on furlough. He was still on furlough to at least October 1863 and was retired to the Invalid Corps on 24 August 1864 as "totally disqualified" for field service.

After the War

In 1880 he was a farmer next door to his brother-in-law Josiah A Tyner at Williston, Levy County, FL.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives,2 also as Lewis and Levi A Calloway. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Frances Farmer Tyner (1836-1926) in November 1865 and they had 3 children.

Birth

03/17/1839 in GA

Death

03/30/1883; in FL; burial in Wacahoota United Methodist Cemetery, Williston, FL

Notes

1 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 32384]

2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 32385]

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