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(c. 1832 - 1863)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a married 28 year old farmer at Randolph in Bibb County, AL. He enlisted there on 14 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 44th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the leg in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He left his regiment on 18 September and was admitted to CS General Hospital #3 in Richmond on 26 September and transferred to Howard's Grove Hospital on 28 December. He died there of variola confluens - complications from smallpox (+ wound?) on 7 January 1863.
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 1860.
He married Sarah F Steele (1834-) in January 1854 and they had 3 children.
His brother John was also wounded at Sharpsburg and also died in a Richmond hospital, in October 1862.
Birth
c. 1832 in AL
Death
01/07/1863; Richmond, VA
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 31691]
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 31692]