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(1842 - 1893)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A 19 year old farmer from Scott County, MS, he enlisted at Camp Texas, Richmond, VA as a Private in Company A, 4th Texas Infantry on 13 October 1861.
On the Campaign
He was with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, and captured.
The rest of the War
He was briefly a prisoner at Fort Delaware until 2 October, when he was sent to Aikens Landing, VA. He was declared exchanged there on 10 November 1862 and returned to duty. He was wounded again, at Chickamauga, GA on 19 September 1862 and captured there, with no later military record.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer in Dallas County, Arkansas.
References & notes
Service information from Davis,1 as G.A. Futch, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
His older brother John Peyton Futch (1835-1923) had enlisted in Company A in July 1861 in Gauadelupe County, TX.
Birth
09/20/1842 in MS
Death
06/14/1893; Tulip, AR; burial in Tanyard Cemetery, Bucksnort, AR
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 148-150, 315-316 [AotW citation 1626]
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 26741]