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(c. 1821 - 1862)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Probably known by Jackson, in 1860 he was a 38 year old farmer at Six Mile in Bibb County, AL. He gave his age as 35 and home as Shelby Springs, AL when he enlisted there (or at Columbiana) on 8 April 1862, and he mustered as a Private in Company D, 44th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action and left behind at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and not heard from afterward; later listed as killed there.
References & notes
His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862, which says only that he was wounded at Sharpsburg. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
He married Harriet Batchelder (1822-) in December 1840 in Muscogee, GA and they had 9 children between 1841 and 1860.
Birth
c. 1821 in GA
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
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 31636]
2 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 31637]