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(c. 1822 - 1864)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 38 year old farmer at Warrenton in Warren County, GA. He enlisted there as a substitute for James F Fowler on 4 September 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 48th Georgia Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in the leg in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was back with his company by December 1862 and served with them to June 1863. He was then in hospital and on sick furlough home into October. He was again on duty to April 1864 but died of pneumonia at home in Warren County, GA on 18 June 1864.
References & notes
His service from Henderson1 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, as D. Atkinson. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
He married Mary Ann Allen (1827-) in January 1846 and they had 5 children.
Birth
c. 1822 in GA
Death
06/18/1864; Warren County, GA
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 5, p. 113 [AotW citation 31757]
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 31758]