Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 26th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as Corporal, Company F, 26th Alabama Infantry about December 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.
The rest of the War
He was in a hospital in Chester, PA in October then held in Fort Delaware. He was exchanged at Fortress Monroe, VA on 15 December 1862 and returned to duty.
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).
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_f.htm [AotW citation 25522]