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(1844 - 1919)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as a Private in Company C, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 in Griffin, GA.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was sick in hospitals in Charlottesville and Lynchburg, VA with chronic dysentery in September 1863. He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his right thigh, probably near Winchester, VA on 29 August 1864, and sent on furlough for 45 days. He did not return to his unit, and in February 1865, the last record in his military file, he was listed as absent without leave in Butts County, GA.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a house carpenter in Dooly County, GA. In 1900 he was a farmer in Butts County, GA but by 1910 was again a carpenter and lived with his nephew Herman Folds and family at East Point, Fulton County, GA.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from Henderson.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870-1910, and his 1898 and later Georgia invalid soldier's pension applications, online from the Georgia Archives. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Anne Elizabeth Folds (1st cousin, 1846-1920) in March 1866 and they had 10 children.
Birth
05/07/1844; Butts County, GA
Death
10/24/1919; burial in Tanners Road Baptist Church Cemetery, Conley, GA
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 28438]
2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28439]