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(1844 - 1912)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Not quite 18 years old, he enlisted at Gibson in Glascock County, GA on 4 March 1862 as a Private in Company A, 48th Georgia Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was appointed First Corporal in November of December 1862 and was wounded again, at Gettysburg, PA, on 2 July 1863. He was home, disabled into October 1863, then back with his company. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
In 1870 he was a farmhand, probably on one of the 3 or more Chalker farms nearby at Smyrna in Cobb County, GA but by 1880 he was farming his own place at Big Shanty, GA. He moved to Texas in the 1880s and by 1900 and to at least 1910 was a farmer in Stephens County, TX.
References & notes
His service from Henderson,1 who says he transferred to Company B in error, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Emily Amanda Hill (1845-1927) in November 1872 and they had 7 children.
He was one of 5 Chalkers who enlisted in Company A.
Birth
06/16/1844; Warren County, GA
Death
06/1912; Eolian, TX; burial in Plum Branch Cemetery, Eolian, TX
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 5, pp. 103-104 [AotW citation 31746]
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 31747]