(1838 - 1915)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He was an unmarried 23 year old merchant from Uniontown, AL when he enlisted as Private on 25 April 1861 in Company D, 4th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
Present in action at Boonsboro.
The rest of the War
Present in action in most engagements at least to the siege of Petersburg in 1864, having been promoted to 2nd Lieutenant 24 March 1863. He was on the staff of General William F. Perry (commanding Law's Brigade) for eighteen months with rank of Captain and aide-de-camp. Surrendered at Appomattox April 1865.
After the War
He was living in Uniontown at the 1907 Veterans census.
References & notes
Birth
09/23/1838; near Marion, Perry County, AL
Death
03/24/1915; Uniontown, AL; burial in Rosemont Cemetery, Uniontown, 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 15631]