(c. 1842 - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 27th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was an 18 year old living with his parents and siblings on their small family farm in Hall County, GA. He mustered as a Private in Company D, 27th Georgia Infantry on 24 February 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action ad captured at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the Federal 6th Army Corps hospital on the Michael Miller farm at Sharpsburg, but died there of wounds, date not given.
References & notes
His service from Henderson.1 His death and hospital details from a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862, as C.M. Hope. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
Birth
c. 1842; Hall County, GA
Death
09/00/1862; 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 19520]