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(c. 1843 - 1862)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Known by Green, in 1860 he was a 17 year old farmer living with his parents and 4 siblings on their small place at Randolph in Bibb County, AL. He enlisted there on 7 April 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 44th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His widow Sarah filed for his final pay of $84.03 in April 1863 and again in August 1864.
References & notes
His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, also as M.G. Oldham. He's also on a casualty list in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser of 8 October 1862, as Green Oldrun. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, also as Green M. Oldham and Madison G. Oldham.
He married Sarah Ann Campbell (1843-1870) in January 1862 and they had a son Charlie Green Oldham, born the December after his father's death.
Birth
c. 1843 in NC
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, 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: /soldier.cfm?id=150813 [AotW citation 25730]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31653]