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(? - 1863)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 26th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as Private, Company C, 26th Alabama Infantry on 28 April 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in his right arm in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in a hospital in Winchester, VA and furloughed for 30 days on 9 October. He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863 and died of smallpox while a prisoner at Fort Delaware on 20 November 1863.
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).
Death
11/20/1863; Pea Patch Island, DE
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_c.htm [AotW citation 25506]