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(1836 - 1898)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 5th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 24 year old overseer on his parent's large farm at Burnt Corn in Monroe County, AL. He enlisted as a Private in Company D (later renamed C), 5th Alabama Infantry on 20 May 1861 at Pensacola, FL.
On the Campaign
He was left behind, sick, at Frederick, MD on 10 September 1862 and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was treated at US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick to 19 September and was paroled and back in Richmond, VA by 30 September 1862. He was captured again, on 19 or 20 July 1863, in Berkeley County, VA (now WV) and was sent to Camp Chase, OH. He was transferred to Fort Delaware on 20 February 1864 and was released on 10 June 1865 after taking an oath of allegiance.
After the War
In 1870 he was a clerk at Burnt Corn, Monroe County, AL.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3; thanks to Miles Krisman for the pointer to him. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Virginia Elizabeth Moseley (1845-1918) in December 1869 and they had two sons.
Birth
01/18/1836; Hancock County, GA
Death
03/13/1898; burial in Puryearville Cemetery, Peterman, AL
1 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 28106]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #125 [AotW citation 34774]