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(1830 - 1883)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a married 29 year old farmer at Centreville in Bibb County, AL. He enlisted at Scottsville in Dallas County as a Private in Company B, 44th Alabama Infantry on 31 March 1862.
On the Campaign
He was "seriously" wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He returned to his company in about December 1863 served to at least October 1864.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was again a farmer in Bibb County.
References & notes
His service from the State of Alabama,1 who have his birth in South Carolina. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Hariett J. Brown (1826-1881) in October 1850 and they had 6 children.
His brother John Columbus Deason (1836-1899) was also in Company B, but was absent ill and not at Sharpsburg.
Birth
05/22/1830 in AL
Death
08/05/1883; Bibb County, AL; burial in Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Bibb County, AL
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 31607]