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(c. 1832 - ?)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
An unmarried 29 year old farmer from Platnersville, he enrolled in Company A, 8th Alabama Infantry on 8 May 1861. He was present at Yorktown, and wounded and captured in action at Williamsburg, VA on 6 May 1862. He was exchanged in July 1862, and was at 2nd Manassas.
On the Campaign
He was present at Sharpsburg.
The rest of the War
Then at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. He was wounded by shrapnel in the head in action at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863, and captured. He was at the US 12th Corps hospital, then held at Point Lookout, MD. He was paroled there on 18 February 1865.
Birth
c. 1832 in AL
Death
Date not known
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 15894]
2 Busey, John W., and Travis W. Busey, Confederate Casualties at Gettysburg: A Comprehensive Record, Jefferson (NC): McFarland & Company, 2017, pg. 73 [AotW citation 15911]