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(1844 - 1905)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Going by Samuel, a 17 year old farmer from Travelers Rest, Coosa County, AL, he enlisted in Coosa County on 29 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 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 captured at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was paroled at Keedysville, MD on 19 September. He was wounded and again captured, at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and a prisoner at Fort Delaware. He took an oath of allegiance there to the United States and was released on 5 May 1865.
After the War
In 1870 he was a farmer at Henderson in Rusk County, TX, but soon after moved to Pensacola in Escambia County, FL and had a farm there by 1880. In 1900 he was distilling turpentine at Ward's Mill in Escambia County.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1900.
He married Martha Jane Young (1844-1930) in August 1866 in Rusk County, TX and they had a daughter Florence. He married again, Mary Sarah Josephine Grimlar (1854-1939) in January 1872 in Escambia County, FL and they had 10 children by 1895.
Birth
03/1844 in AL
Death
1905; Escambia County, FL
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 32453]
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 32454]