Mitchel Walraven

He enlisted as Private, Company L, Phillips' Legion Infantry Battalion on 5 April 1862.

He was captured in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

He was exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was wounded in the foot at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and again, accidentally, on 13 June 1864. He was listed as a deserter on 11 March 1865.

In 1870 he was in Cobb County. At the 1880 US Census he was living with his wife and 8 children in Oak Grove, Fulton County, GA. In 1900 he was in Crossville, Milton County, 3 children still at home, and he and his wife were living with granddaughter Pearl in Cobb County in 1910.

His service from Graham,1 as Mitchell Walraven. Details the US Census for 1870-1910 and Jessie Ruth Starnes Russell's The Starneses of the South (1989). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Catherine Starnes (1836-1919) in 1858 and they had at least 8 children, the first 3 born in South Carolina, Mary Catherine's family home.

05/19/1839; Cass Station, Bartow County, GA

05/09/1915; burial in Mount Zion Cemetery, Cobb County, GA