Silas Pratt Kornegay

Known by Pratt, in 1860 he was an unmarried 27 year old farmer who owned a slave and lived with the Ratliffe family at Scottsville, AL. He enlisted in Bibb County on 17 April 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 44th Alabama Infantry.

He was slightly wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

By December 1862 he was under charges of "cowardly conduct in battle" and court-martialed in January 1863, outcome not found. He was listed as a deserter on 21 October 1863 and absent without leave until he returned to duty on 25 December. He was captured on the North Anna River, VA on 23 May 1864 and sent to Point Lookout, MD. He took an oath of allegiance there on 6 June 1865 and was released.

By 1880 he was again a farmer in Bibb County, AL. In 1900 he was farming in Barbour County, AL but by 1910 he had retired and was back in Bibb County. In 1920, then 87 years old, he lived with his son (James) Melford there.

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, notably in Bettie Jean Young Heathcock in Our Kornegay Family (1982), and the US Census of 1860 and 1880-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Nancy W Hubbard (1849-1868) in June 1866 and they had a son Pleasant Andrew (or Andrew Hubbard, 1867-1887). He married again, Mary Bishop (1843-1911) in December 1868 and they had 6 more sons and a daughter.

His brother John was also in Company H and was wounded at Antietam.

12/03/1832; Bibb County, AL

04/16/1924; Bibb County, AL; burial in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Centreville, AL