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(1823 - 1864)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 35 year old farmer near his parents' place at Harrell's in Dallas County, AL. He enlisted in Columbiana in Shelby County on 29 March 1862, and he mustered as a Private in Company D, 44th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was wounded by a gunshot to his left knee at Raccoon Mountain near Chattanooga, TN on 28 October 1863. His leg was amputated above the knee, and he was captured on Mission Ridge, TN on 25 November. He was in a US hospital at Bridgeport, AL by 28 November and sent on to a US General Hospital in Nashville, TN on 2 December. On 17 March 1864 he was sent to Louisville, KY, then on 24 March to Camp Chase near Columbus, OH where he died of chronic diarrhea on 4 May 1864.
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. Amputation detail from the MSHWR,3 which has his wounding on 20 September 1862 (presumably Chickamauga). Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
08/1823; Dallas County, AL
Death
05/04/1864; Camp Chase, OH; burial in Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery, Columbus, OH
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 31641]
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 31642]
3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 3, p. 245 [AotW citation 31643]