Alvan Howard Summers

From the Big Shanty District, Cobb County, he enlisted as First Sergeant, Company O, Phillips' Legion Infantry Battalion on 6 May 1862.

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

He was exchanged on 6 October 1862 and returned to duty. He was reduced to Private at his own request on 16 October and was detailed as a teamster. He served to the surrender at Appomattox Court House, VA and he was paroled there on 9 April 1865.

He was in Sumter County, GA by 1870 and in Baldwin County in 1880. He was a "a prominent citizen" and Mason in Clarkston, DeKalb County at the time of his death at age 73.

His service from Graham.1 Details from family genealogists. His memorial is on Findagrave.

He married Jane A. Brake (1836-1914) in December 1857 and they had 12 children. He compiled Genealogy, or, Family tree of Benjamin Summers and his descendants for four generations in 1903.

07/13/1838; Cobb County, GA

05/16/1910; Clarkston, GA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Atlanta, GA