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"Frank"
(1842 - 1923)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as Private, Company B, Phillips' Legion Infantry Battalion on 4 March 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the thigh in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was captured in action at Gettysburg, PA in July 1863 and was back to duty by 1864. He was captured at Sailor's Creek, VA on 6 April 1865 and held at Newport News, VA. He escaped from prison and "walked home".
After the War
He moved to Texas about 1877 and was a farmer in Greenville, Hunt County.
References & notes
His service from Graham,1 as Frank J. Davis. Details from his obituary in the Greenville Evening Banner of 5 September 1923. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Jennie Amelia (or Amelia Jane) Martin (1848-1899) in 1867 and they had at least 6 children together. He married Margaret Sory-New (1844-1904) in 1902 and Jo Ella Kiersky (1860-1929) in 1906.
Birth
11/24/1842; Whitfield County, GA
Death
09/05/1923; Greenville, TX
1 Graham, Kurt D., Phillips Georgia Legion - Infantry Battalion, first accessed 20 September 2012, <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/RandysTexas/page4.html>, Source page: /InfCoB.html [AotW citation 21856]