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(1833 - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He was clerk of the court for Taylor County from 1852 to at least 1855, and had a business - McCann & Co. - in Butler, GA. He was listed as a miller in the US Census of 1860 for Taylor County. He enlisted as Private, Company G, 6th Georgia Infantry on 27 May 1861. He was appointed Sergeant then elected 2nd Lieutenant, dates not given.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
References & notes
Service information from Henderson,1 who has no record for him after 30 August 1862. His death 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.
He married Martha A. Bateman (b. 1835) in December 1852; no children found.
Birth
1833; Butler, GA
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 1, pg. 804 [AotW citation 21161]