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(1846 - 1894)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 14 year old living with his parents and 4 siblings at Green's Cut in Burke County, GA. He enlisted in Charleston, SC on 12 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 48th Georgia Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was slightly injured by powder burns to his face in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the Camp Wilder hospital in Richmond, VA on 18 October and sent on furlough for 30 days on 6 December 1862. He was wounded by a gunshot at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and returned to duty on 25 November 1863. He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his left thigh at Deep Bottom, VA on 16 August 1864 and was afterward absent in hospitals and home on furlough. He was paroled at Augusta, GA on 24 May 1865.
After the War
By 1880 he was a farmer in Screven County, GA.
References & notes
His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. His injury 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 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Laura L. Paris (1859-1946) in February 1876 and they had 6 children.
His brother Alexander, also in Company D, was killed at Sharpsburg.
Birth
05/08/1846 in GA
Death
01/16/1894; in GA; burial in Botsford Baptist Church Cemetery, Waynesboro, GA
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 31796]
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 31797]