(1828 - 1905)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 16th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
At the 1850 US Census he was a clerk (possibly for his merchant father) in Jackson County, GA and by 1860 he was an Ordinary - an inn or tavern keeper - in Jefferson, GA.
He was a man of magnificent physique, standing about 6 feet 3 inches and weighed in good health about 225 pounds.He organized a company and was elected and commissioned their Captain, Company G, 16th Georgia Infantry 20 July 1861 on the original organization of the regiment. He was home on furlough in February 1862 and ill in Richmond in June.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his left thigh and captured, by members of the 96th Pennsylvania Infantry, in action on 14 September 1862 at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the US Army 6th Corps field hospital at Burkittsville, MD in September and October, was paroled by 26 September, and was held at Fort McHenry in Baltimore by November. He was exchanged on 8 November at Aikens' Landing, VA, in a Petersburg, VA hospital by 4 December, and furloughed on 10 December 1862. He resigned his commission on 1 August 1863 citing disability from his wound, which had still not healed, and his resignation was accepted on 9 (or 28) September 1863.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least June 1880 he was a farmer back in Jackson County, GA. He moved to Lakeland, Polk County, FL in 1880 or 1881 and from 1882 to at least 1900 was Superintendent of the county poor farm.
References & notes
His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, with details of his capture from Colonel Cake's Report. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1850-1900, Dr. Geoffrey A. Thompson, and his obituary in the Tampa Tribune of 10 August 1905, source also of the "magnificent physique" quote. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His photograph from an ambrotype in the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
He married Mary Arline Randolph (1833-1906) in 1850 [photo] and they had a daughter Nancy Elizabeth (1858-1936).
Birth
01/16/1828; Jackson County, GA
Death
08/09/1905; Lakeland, FL; burial in Lakeview Cemetery, Lakeland, FL
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 12158]
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 30924]