(c. 1842 - 1864)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
From Taylor County, about age 19, he enlisted as Private, Company G, 6th Georgia Infantry on 24 June 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was severely wounded at Petersburg, VA and admitted to a hospital in Richmond on 1 July 1864. He died there on 25 July 1864.
References & notes
Service information from Henderson.1 His wounding at Sharpsburg from a casualty list for the Regiment printed in the Southern Recorder (Milledgeville, GA) on 21 October 1862. His Petersburg wound details from Alfred Young's The Complete Roster and Service Records of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia during the Overland Campaign (2019). His birth information from the 1860 US Census for Taylor County. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
c. 1842 in GA
Death
07/25/1864; Richmond, VA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 1, pg. 807 [AotW citation 21164]