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(1843 - 1890)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
From Oglethorpe County, he enlisted as Private, Company K, 6th Georgia Infantry on 22 August 1861 at Yorktown, VA.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was hospitalized in Richmond, VA on 25 September and returned to duty, date not known. He was present for duty through at least 30 April 1864, the last muster roll on record. He was admitted to a hospital in Greensboro, NC on 4 March 1865 for a gunshot wound in the glutei.
After the War
He returned to Oglethorpe Country.
References & notes
Service information from Henderson1 with details from his Compiled Service Records courtesy of Barry Truluck. His Sharpsburg wounding from a casualty list for the Regiment printed in the Southern Recorder (Milledgeville, GA) on 21 October 1862. Further details from his wife's pension application (online from the Georgia Archives Virtual Vault) and family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Elizabeth Dean Harwell (1844-1934) in September 1865 and they had 8 children.
Birth
08/10/1843; Oglethorpe County, GA
Death
01/05/1890; Oglethorpe County, GA; burial in Martin Cemetery, Oglethorpe County,
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 1, pg. 832 [AotW citation 21200]