(1843 - 1916)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as Private, Company H, 6th Georgia Infantry on 27 May 1861.
On the Campaign
He was listed as missing in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Corporal, date not given, and was wounded in the neck and shoulder at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and treated at the Jackson Hospital in Richmond, VA. He was furloughed home into 1864 and married there in May. He may have been wounded again, in the foot in July 1864, and was surrendered at Tallahassee, FL on 10 May 1865 and paroled at Albany, GA on the 15th.
References & notes
Service information from Henderson,1 as Redden A. Perry. His Sharpsburg status from a casualty list for the Regiment printed in the Southern Recorder (Milledgeville, GA) on 21 October 1862. Details from family genealogists, at least one having his name as Redmon A. Perry. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Siddath Sutton (1844-1916) on 1 May 1864 in Baker County, GA, and they had 9 children together between 1865 and 1885. She died only two weeks after he did.
Birth
07/18/1843
Death
1916; burial in Ochlocknee City Cemetery, Ochlocknee, 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. 814 [AotW citation 21183]
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 1, pg. 815 [AotW citation 21184]