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(1839 - 1887)
Home State: Georgia
Education: Franklin College/University of Georgia, Class of 1860
Branch of Service: Artillery
Unit: Troup (GA) Artillery
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 20 year old in Athens, GA. He enlisted there as a Private in the Troup Artillery on 1 May 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action, shot through both legs, at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was home on furlough to at least November 1862, then back with his battery. He was detailed to the Conscript Department on enrolling duty in Athens from January to April 1864 and at Augusta to at least October 1864, with no later military record.
After the War
In 1880 he was a farmer in Somervell County, TX but by 1882 was in Bandera County.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His wound at Crampton's also in a list of casualties published in the Athens Southern Banner of 8 October 1862 - from a letter from Captain Carlton to Carlton's parents; thanks to Laura Elliott for transcribing that. Personal details from family genealogists, some of whom have his middle name as Steven, and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Frances Elizabeth McCoy (1856-1898) in 1872 and they had 7 children.
Birth
10/01/1839; Rome, GA
Death
12/10/1887; Vanderpool, TX; burial in Vanderpool Cemetery, Vanderpool, TX
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 30520]