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(1838 - 1900)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as a Private in Company D, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 in Griffin, GA.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was appointed 5th Sergeant, date not given, and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
Except for a brief period in 1895-96 when he lived in Alabama, he was a lifelong Thomaston, Upson County, GA resident, and he gave his post-war occupation as "merchandising." In 1900 he was retired and living with his daughter and her family in Thomaston.
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 1900, and his 1900 pension application, online from the Georgia Archives. His gravesite is on Findagrave, which has his birth on 15 November 1837.
He married Mary Francena Cheney (1848-1872) in December 1870 in Muscogee County, GA, and they had a daughter Mary Estelle (1871-1961).
Birth
11/12/1838
Death
11/21/1900; burial in Glenwood Cemetery, Thomaston, 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 28555]
2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28556]