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(1829 - 1881)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
From Polk County, he enlisted as Private, Company D, Phillips' Legion Infantry Battalion on 14 May 1862 at Camp Prichard, SC.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He transferred to the 3rd Georgia Sharpshooter Battalion in May 1863. He was severely wounded at the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 with no further military record.
After the War
He lived in Polk County, GA for the rest of his life.
References & notes
His service from Graham.1 Details from Robin Sterling's Blount County, Alabama Confederate Soldiers (Vol. 3, 2012). His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Susan F Atkins (1839-1931) in 1853 in Polk County and they had 8 children. In 1900 his widow was living in Blount County, AL with her son Marion Alonzo (1879-1909).
Birth
12/08/1829; Cedartown, GA
Death
08/25/1881; Floyd County, GA; burial in Bethlehem Cemetery Fish Creek, Polk County, GA
1 Graham, Kurt D., Phillips Georgia Legion - Infantry Battalion, first accessed 20 September 2012, <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/RandysTexas/page4.html>, Source page: /InfCoD.html [AotW citation 21908]