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(1844 - 1920)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 17, he enlisted as a Private in Company I, 13th Georgia Infantry on 11 January 1862 at Griffin, GA.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was captured at Spotsylvania, VA on 12 May 1864 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware until transferred on 7 March 1865 to Boulware & Cox's Wharves, James River, VA where he was exchanged on 10-12 March 1865.
After the War
By 1870 he was a farmer in Newnan, Coweta County, GA. In 1880 he was farming in Henry County, GA, and by 1910 and to his death in 1920 he had a farm in Spalding County.
References & notes
His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Sharpsburg wound detail from a casualty list in the Savannah Weekly Republican of 4 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Martha E. Potts (1850-1869) in December 1867 in Coweta County. He married again, Martha Annie Weems (1844-1890) in December 1869 and they had 5 children. He married for the third time, Susannah A. Barfield (1848-1927) in November 1890.
Birth
09/03/1844; Oglethorpe County, GA
Death
04/18/1920; Sunny Side, GA; burial in Sunny Side Methodist Church, Spalding County, GA
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28380]
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 28381]