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(1839 - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 27th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 22 year old rail road worker living in Butler, Taylor County, GA. He enlisted as Private, Company F, 27th Georgia Infantry on 9 September 1861 at Camp Stephens near Griffin, GA. He was in a hospital at Danville, VA with pneumonia in January 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds at Sedgwick's Division field hospital on the Simon Wyand farm near Keedysville, MD on 19 September 1862.
His widow Missouri filed for his final pay in January 1863.
References & notes
His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Hospital detail from a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
He married Missouri H Shepherd (1846-) in February 1860 and they had two children.
Birth
1839; Marion County, GA
Death
09/19/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19519]
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 30056]