(1835 - 1908)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as Private in Company E, 6th Georgia Infantry on 14 May 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was with his Company to at least 30 April 1864 with no later military record.
References & notes
Service information from Henderson.1 His wound at Sharpsburg from a casualty list for the Regiment printed in the Southern Recorder (Milledgeville, GA) on 21 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Sarah Marshall (1835-1907) in April 1857 and they had 7 children together; he only outlived her by about 7 months.
Birth
01/19/1835; Jones County, GA
Death
07/17/1908; Crawford County, GA; burial in Little Union Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Roberta, GA
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 1, pg. 786 [AotW citation 21148]