Isaac Handly

In 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his parents, 5 siblings, and 3 slaves at Rehoboth in Wilcox County, AL. He gave his occupation as student when he enlisted in Camden, AL on 6 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was wounded at Malvern Hill, VA on 1 July 1862.

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.

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 30 September and was afterward on furlough to at least January 1863. He was again in action at Chancellorsville, VA, Gettysburg, PA, the Wilderness and Spotsylvania, VA and, except for a brief furlough of indulgence in September and October 1864, on to the end of the war.

In 1870 he was a farmer on (or next door to) C.M. Stevenson's place at Allenton in Wilcox County. He married Stevenson's sister Lena in 1879. By 1900 and to at least 1910 he was farming his own place at Camden, AL.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1870, 1900, and 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Frances Lena Stephenson (1849-1930) in March 1879 in Wilcox County and they had 6 sons and a daughter.

03/07/1843; Camden, AL

12/22/1910; near Camden, AL; burial in Camden Cemetery, Camden, AL