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(c. 1843 - ?)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 17 year old farm worker living with his parents and 5 siblings o their farm in Henry County, GA. He enlisted as a Private in Company C, 13th Georgia Infantry on 13 September 1861 in Richmond, VA.
On the Campaign
He was captured at Frederick, MD on 12 or 13 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD by 19 September and sent to Aiken's Landing, VA on 2 (or 6) October for exchange. He was declared formally exchanged on 10 November 1862 and was on sick furlough to 4 February 1863, then returned to duty. He was appointed Corporal by January 1864 and 5th Sergeant by August 1864. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from Henderson,2 both as A.P. Wall. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
He was possibly Aaron P Wall, later of Butts County, GA.
His brother Moses was in the 53rd Georgia Infantry and was mortally wounded at Sharpsburg.
Birth
c. 1843 in 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 28612]
2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28613]