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(c. 1832 - 1864)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A 35 year old farmer in Hillsboro, AL, he enlisted at Montevallo in Shelby County on 10 April 1862, and he mustered as a Private in Company E, 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 listed as a deserter near Chattanooga, TN on 25 September 1863, but "returned voluntarily" on 27 January 1864. He was captured in action at the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864, initially held at Point Lookout, MD, then sent to Elmira, NY on 17 August. He died there of the effects of erysipelas, a bacterial skin infection, on 2 November 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. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Keziah Jones (1832-) in July 1850 and they had 3 daughters.
Birth
c. 1832
Death
11/02/1864; Elmira, NY; burial in Woodlawn National Cemetery, Elmira, NY
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 31649]
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 31650]