Larkin Busby

In 1860 he was a 16 year old farmer on his parents' place in Calhoun County, AL. He enlisted at Fair Play, AL on 6 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 44th Alabama Infantry.

He was wounded by gunshots to his right ankle and shoulder in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #3 in Richmond, VA on 4 October and was furloughed home for 60 days on 1 November. He did not return to his unit.

By 1870 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer at Edwardsville and Chulafinnee in Cleburne County, AL.

His service from the State of Alabama,1 which has his age as 27 and home at Oaklevel, AL at enlistment, and from 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, which had him shot in the foot, knee, and back. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1910, and his Confederate Pension applications of 1889, 1898, and 1913, all online from FamilySearch. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Lucinda Ann Baty (1845-1923) in July 1868 and they had 6 children; only daughter Martha (later Campbell, 1875-1958) outlived him.

c. 1844; Laurens District, SC

01/14/1927; Heflin, AL; burial in Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, Heflin, AL