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(1823 - 1898)
Home State: Georgia
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 28th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 36 year old Superior Court Clerk at Canton in Cherokee County, GA. He was commissioned Captain, Company D, 28th Georgia Infantry to date from 15 September 1861.
On the Campaign
He was in command on the field at Sharpsburg as senior officer present after Major Graybill was wounded, but was himself wounded by a gunshot to his left thigh there on 17 September 1862, the bone broken.
The rest of the War
He was furloughed home on 10 November 1862 and resigned for disability on 9 May 1863 due to an "imperfectly united fracture of the femur of the left side" from his Sharpsburg wound. His leg shortened about 3 inches.
After the War
In 1870 he was a merchant at Kennesaw in Cobb County, GA and by 1880 was in dry goods in the village of Woodstock, Cherokee County, GA.
References & notes
His service from the Roster,1 which says he resigned due to a fracture of his left foot, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1880, and his Confederate pension application of December 1889. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
His father (1776-1862) had been a Captain in the War of 1812.
Birth
05/14/1823; Hall County, GA
Death
1898; Cherokee County, GA; burial in Riverview Cemetery, Canton, GA
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19521]
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 35044]