(1840 - 1866)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He was an unmarried 20 year old farmer from Benton, AL when he enlisted as Private on 26 April 1861 in Company C, 4th Alabama Infantry. He was elected 3rd Lieutenant on 15 July 1862.
On the Campaign
Present in action on South Mountain and at Sharpsburg.
The rest of the War
Present with his Company in action in most engagements at least to the siege of Petersburg in 1864, having been promoted (rank?) in January 1863 and wounded in action at Chickamauga, GA on 18 or 19 September 1863.
After the War
He died relatively young at age 26, not long after the War.
References & notes
Birth
03/18/1840; Lowndes County, AL
Death
12/2/7/1866; Lowndes County, AL; burial in Bethany Baptist-Todd Cemetery, Collirene, AL
1 State of Alabama, State Archives, and Dr. Edwin C. Bridges, director, and staff, Alabama Department of Archives & History, Published c.2000, first accessed 08 July 2005, <http://www.archives.state.al.us/index.html>, Source page: various [AotW citation 15614]