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(1842 - 1932)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 17 year old farm worker on his parents' place at Central Institute/Rockford in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted at Montgomery, AL on 29 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 13th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, and was promoted to First Corporal "for gallantry" that day.
The rest of the War
He Deserves special notice for bravery; he was known to kill three of the enemy at Falling Water[s, MD, 14 July 1863] in a hand to hand fight.
He was promoted to 5th Sergeant, date not given, and was wounded at Jones' Farm near Petersburg, VA on 30 September 1864 and was sent home on furlough in October. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
In 1870 he was farming with his parents in Union Parish, LA but by 1880 had his own farm in Jackson Parish. He moved to Webster Parish, LA in about 1892 and farmed there to at least 1920. By 1930 he had finally retired and lived with daughter Ena (McGurk) and her family in Minden, LA.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives,2 who say he was sick at Sharpsburg. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1930. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Mollie Elizabeth Sanders (1851-1921) in 1872 and they had 8 children: 3 sons followed by 5 daughters.
Birth
11/27/1842; Montgomery County, AL
Death
08/17/1932; Minden, LA; burial in Mount Zion Cemetery, Webster Parish, LA
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 32399]
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 32400]