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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Andrew Jackson Trucks

(c. 1818 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Known as Jackson, he was a married farmer at Six Mile, AL and he gave his age as 40 (he was 44) when he enlisted there with his brother Marion as a Private in Company F, 44th Alabama Infantry on 14 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the arm in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and afterward reported missing, then killed there.

The rest of the War

His widow Jane filed a claim for his final pay of $107.08 in May 1864.

References & notes

His service from the State of Alabama,1 as Jackson M. Trucks, killed outright at Sharpsburg, and from his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, as A. Jackson Trucks. He's also on a casualty list in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser of 8 October 1862 as severely wounded in the arm. Personal details from family genealogists.

He married Jane Potts (1825-1891) in about 1842 and they had 4 children by 1853.

Birth

c. 1818; Bibb County, AL

Death

09/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

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=205717 [AotW citation 25733]

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 31659]

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