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(c. 1838 - 1863)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 22 year old farmer at Gibson in Glascock County, GA. He enlisted there on 4 March 1862 and mustered as Private, Company A, 48th Georgia Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in the shoulder in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 8 October 1862 when he was furloughed home for 30 days. He was back with his company by January 1863. He died of wounds on 1 (or 14) December 1863; places of wounding and death not given.
References & notes
His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
He married Mary Jane Martin (1836-) in September 1855 and they had 3 children.
Birth
c. 1838 in GA
Death
12/01/1863
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19639]
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 31808]