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(1814 - 1886)
Home State: Virginia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 30th Virginia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was 46 years old and lived with his family in Martinsburg, Berkley County, VA. He enlisted in Fredericksburg on 22 April 1861 as a Private in Company A, 30th Virginia Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his ankle in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 1 October. He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his right thigh, and was admitted to the CSA General Hospital in Farmville, VA on 2 April 1865. He was surrendered and paroled there between 11 and 21 April.
After the War
By 1880 he was retired and living at Orange Courthouse, VA with his wife and daughter Frances G. Brown (1857-).
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Susan Marie Watson (1819-1842) and they had a daughter, Eliza (1840-1915). He married again, Margaret Elizabeth Burkhart (1818-1896) in July 1845 and they had 5 children.
Birth
1814; Martinsburg, VA
Death
12/14/1886; Orange County, VA; burial in Graham Cemetery, Orange, VA
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 30410]