(1841 - 1914)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He was an unmarried 22 year old farmer from Brooklyn, AL when he enlisted as Private on 25 April 1861 in Company E, 4th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
Present in action on South Mountain and at Sharpsburg.
The rest of the War
He was wounded in a skirmish at Louden, TN on 1 December 1864. Discharged for disability from wounds, date not given.
After the War
He was living in Brooklyn, AL to at least 1908.
References & notes
Basic information from State of Alabama1, which has his birth date as 02/05/1842. Details from family genealogists.
Birth
02/05/1841; Brooklyn, AL
Death
11/25/1914; Brooklyn, AL; burial in Brooklyn Baptist Church Cemetery, Evergreen, AL
1 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>, Source page: various [AotW citation 15573]