Alonzo Mercer Griffin, Jr.

In 1860 he was a 16 year old clerk, probably in his father's liquor business, living with his parents and at least 8 siblings in Natchez, MS. Giving his age as 21, he enlisted on 5 March (or 25 April) 1861 in Natchez, MS and mustered as a Private in Company G, 12th Mississippi Infantry on 5 May 1861 in Corinth, MS. He was appointed 4th Corporal after February 1862, date not found.

He was captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was paroled near Sharpsburg on 20 September and was in Richmond, VA by 7 October 1862. He was wounded by a gunshot to his right leg at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863, on furlough to 4 July, and afterward absent without leave to at least February 1864 with no later military record.

By 1870 and to at least 1880, again living with parents (widowed mother after 1872) and siblings, he was a printer in Natchez.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as A.G. Griffin. He was listed as missing at Sharpsburg on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880, also as Alonzo G Griffin.

His brother Henry Clay Griffin (1844-1901), later Mayor of Natchez, was also in Company G but was disabled by a wound at Glendale/Frazier's Farm, VA in June 1862.

c. 1844; Natchez, MS

04/17/1911; Natchez, MS