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(c. 1834 - 1864)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A married 27 year old farmer in Dallas County, he enlisted at Pleasant Hill as Private, Company A, 44th Alabama Infantry on 17 March 1862.
On the Campaign
He was captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was exchanged on 6 November 1862 and returned to duty. He was captured again, at Suffolk, VA on 19 April 1863 and exchanged on 5 May. He was wounded at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and captured there. He was held at Fort Delaware and died there, probably of disease, on 3 January 1864.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1834; Dallas County, AL
Death
01/03/1864; Pea Patch Island, DE; burial in Finn's Point National Cemetery, Pennsville, NJ
1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /civilwar/soldier.cfm?id=134084, etc. [AotW citation 24933]