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(1832 - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 53rd Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 27 year old mechanic at Zebulon, Pike County, GA. He enlisted in Zebulon as a Private in Company H, 53rd Georgia Infantry on 5 May 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was listed as paroled on 27 September but had died of wounds on 25 September 1862, probably in a US Army field hospital near Sharpsburg. His widow Mary filed a claim for his final pay in May 1863.
References & notes
His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records, US National Archives, online via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and from the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Elizabeth Hancock (1832-1900) in March 1855 in Upson County, GA and they had 3 children.
Birth
1832; Pike County, GA
Death
07/25/1862; 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 19677]