Jeremiah Walker Stallings, Jr.

In 1860 he was a 20 year old worker on his parent's small farm at Wedowee in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted at Montgomery, AL as a Private in Company D, 13th Alabama Infantry on 19 July 1861. He was appointed Color Sergeant about August 1862 (to date from 1 June).

While serving as Color Sergeant he was severely wounded by a gunshot and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was paroled at Sharpsburg on 30 September 1862 and was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 31 October. His leg was amputated and he was furloughed home on 17 December 1862.

By 1880 he was a blacksmith at Rock Mills, Randolph County, AL. In 1900 he was a blacksmith and the jail warden at Lafayette, Chambers County, AL and in 1910 was a blacksmith with his own shop there. He was retired in Chambers County by 1910.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

03/30/1841; Roanoke, AL

07/16/1920; LaFayette, AL; burial in LaFayette Cemetery, Lafayette, AL