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(1834 - 1879)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A married 26 year old farmer at Six Mile in Bibb County, AL, he enlisted there on 14 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 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 back on duty by November 1862 and was wounded again, at Chickamauga, GA on 19 September 1863. He had pneumonia in May 1864 and was in a hospital in Charlottesville, VA then on 60 day furlough. He was back with his company by August 1864 and to at least November 1864, the latest record in his military file.
After the War
In 1870 he was a farmer at Panola, MS.
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 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Sarah Amanda Trott (1838-1920) in August 1855 and they had 7 children.
Birth
09/30/1834; Dallas County, AL
Death
11/06/1879; burial in Cottingham 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 31660]
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 31661]