Jeremiah H. Pierson

A 22 year old farmer at Culloden in Monroe County, he enlisted at Forsyth as Private, Company B, 45th Georgia Infantry on 4 March 1862. He was wounded at Second Manassas, VA on 29 August 1862.

He was wounded again, in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was treated in hospitals in Richmond, VA and returned to duty on 18 November 1862. He was in hospital again in December, sick. He was wounded for the third time, in the right arm and disabled at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863. He was treated at Chimborazo Hospital #4 in Richmond, VA from 21 July to 8 August 1863, when he was sent home on furlough. He was there to at least January 1864 and was detailed (disabled) to Macon, GA to 2 July 1864. He was again furloughed home from July 1864 to the end of the war.

Service from the Roster,1 as Jeremiah H. Pearson, and his Compiled Service Record, online via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

05/14/1839; Monroe County, GA

02/07/1901; Culloden, GA; burial in Pierson Family Cemetery, Culloden, GA