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J.H.L. Gerdine
"Joe"
(1841 - 1921)
Home State: Georgia
Education: Princeton University (AB, 1860),
University of Georgia, Law, Class of 1861
Branch of Service: Artillery
Unit: Troup (GA) Artillery
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 18 year old student in Princeton, NJ, his home address in Lowndes County, MS. On 24 April 1861, by then a student in the Lumpkin Law School at the University of Georgia, he enlisted in Athens as a Private in the Troup Artillery. He was promoted to Sergeant on 17 May 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action, shot in the right thigh, the bone broken, at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was sent to Shepherdstown, VA and captured there. He was paroled on 30 September and was in General Hospital #14 in Richmond, VA, to 1 December 1862, when he was discharged for disability - his right leg about two inches shorter than his left.
After the War
By 1870 he was a law superintendent (?) living next door to his parents and younger siblings, farmers at West Point in Lowndes County, MS. In 1900 he was a Justice of the Peace in Macon, GA and had retired to Bradenton, FL by 1920.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His wound 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. His nickname from a letter Private Hemphill wrote home, published in the Southern Banner of 1 October 1862; thanks to Laura Elliott for transcribing both of those articles. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, 1870, 1900 & 1920, and the Catalogue.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from the 1860 Princeton Yearbook, contributed by David Cress.
He married Mary Madeline Lumpkin (1845-1865) in 1863. He married again, Rebecca Cureton Murrah (1845-1941) in October 1867 and they had 8 children.
Birth
10/21/1841; Lexington, GA
Death
04/12/1921; Manatee County, FL; burial in Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, GA
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 30524]
2 University of Georgia, Board of Trustees, Catalogue of the Trustees, Officers, Alumni and Matriculates of the University of Georgia at Athens, Georgia, 1785-1906, Athens: E.D. Stone Press, 1906, p. 80 [AotW citation 30525]