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(c. 1836 - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 24 year old farmer living with his parents and their 17 slaves on their plantation near Bowdon in Carroll County, GA. He enlisted there on 30 July 1861 and mustered as as Private in Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry Battalion.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His mother Catherine filed a claim for his final pay in September 1863.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1836 in GA
Death
09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD
1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Former Confederate Soldiers who Served in the 1st Through 6th U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments, 1864-1866, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 33851]