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(c. 1836 - 1864)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Artillery
Unit: Troup (GA) Artillery
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 24 year old farmer on his widowed mother Elizabeth's place in Watkinsville, Clarke County, GA. He enlisted in Athens, GA as a Private in the Troup Artillery on 24 April 1861.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in action, shot in the thigh, at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to CS General Hospital #12 in Richmond, VA on 28 September and furloughed home to Watkinsville, GA on 3 October. He was promoted to Corporal on 15 November 1862, then still home on furlough. He returned by January 1863 and was killed at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 10 May 1864.
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 and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
c. 1836 in GA
Death
05/10/1864; Spotsylvania Court House, 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 30521]