(1841 - 1925)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
From Cobb County, he enlisted as Private, Company I, 7th Georgia Infantry on 31 May 1861 in Atlanta and was slightly wounded in action at Manassas, VA on 21 July 1861. By August he was in a hospital in Charlottesville, VA and in October a hospital in Culpeper, VA. He was discharged there for disability on 13 December. He reenlisted, in Company M, Phillips' Legion Infantry Battalion, on 28 April 1862.
On the Campaign
He was captured in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was held briefly at Fort Delaware, sent to Aiken's Landing, VA on 2 October, and exchanged there on 10 November. He was captured again, at Knoxville, TN on 29 November 1863 and sent to Louisville, KY, where he was ill with smallpox in December, then on to Camp Chase, OH. He took an oath of allegiance there in June 1864. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA on 16 March 1865 and was furloughed home on 30 March with no further military record.
After the War
He lived in Cobb County to 1886 when he moved to Cullman County, AL, and was a farmer there.
More on the Web
See much more about Bryan and his Battalion in a bio sketch by Kurt Graham, source also of his picture, from a photograph provided by Julie Bright.
Birth
05/02/1841; Franklin County, GA
Death
05/19/1925; in GA; burial in Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery, Hulaco, AL
1 Graham, Kurt D., Phillips Georgia Legion - Infantry Battalion, first accessed 20 September 2012, <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/RandysTexas/page4.html>, Source page: /InfCoM.html [AotW citation 22001]