(c. 1843 - 1864)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 26th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
About age 18, he enlisted as Private, Company A, 26th Alabama Infantry on 3 October 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was briefly held at Fort Delaware, then sent to Aiken's Landing, VA on 2 October and exchanged on 10 November 1862. He died, cause not given, in Tuscaloosa, AL on 22 March 1864.
References & notes
His service from Fincham's roster,1 sourced from Tod L. Molsworth's O'Neal's 26th Alabama: the Little Regiment that Did (2000).
Birth
c. 1843; Fayette County, AL
Death
03/22/1864; Tuscaloosa, AL
1 Fincham, Jr., Ray, Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry Regimental Histories - Alabama, Published 2005, first accessed 23 August 2020, <https://ranger95.com/civil_war/alabama/index.html>, Source page: /infantry/26ala_inf/26th_ala_inf_roster_a.html [AotW citation 25494]