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(c. 1846 - 1862)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 14 year old living with his parents and 10 siblings on their farm at Roanoke in Randolph County, AL. Giving his age as 16, he enlisted there on 23 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 13th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the "White House" hospital on the Line farm at Sharpsburg, but died there of wounds between 17 and 29 September. He was buried nearby, but his current resting place is unknown.
His father James filed for his final pay of $103.23 in November 1862. The money was finally disbursed in Richmond, VA in March 1865 - and, likely in Confederate currency, was soon worthless if it even reached Roanoke.
References & notes
His service from the Alabama database1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Hospital detail from a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
Birth
c. 1846 in AL
Death
09/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 32545]
2 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 32546]