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(c. 1843 - 1862)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
An 18 year old farm boy in Long Island, Jackson County, AL, he enlisted as Private, Company I (later D), 6th Alabama Infantry on 16 May 1861 in Montgomery.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862
References & notes
His service from the State of Alabama.1 His death on South Mountain is in a casualty list for Rodes' Brigade in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser of 8 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860.
Birth
c. 1843 in GA
Death
09/14/1862; Turner's Gap, MD
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=54045 [AotW citation 25648]