Aaron Wesley Aldred

Age 25, he enlisted at Louisville in Jefferson County, GA on 4 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 48th Georgia Infantry.

He was slightly wounded by a gunshot to his neck in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted to the hospital at Camp Winder in Richmond, VA on 27 September and sent back to his company on 8 or 9 October 1862. He was in a hospital in Charlottesville, VA with the mumps in December 1862. He was wounded again, at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863, elected Junior 2nd Lieutenant on 5 September, and First Lieutenant on 30 November 1863. He was wounded for the third time, by a gunshot to his right forearm at Petersburg, VA on 22 June 1864. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Bethany in Jefferson County, GA. In 1900 he was a landlord in Washington County, GA.

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He is on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Anna Lou Hart (1842-1926) in September 1860 and they had 5 children by 1872. He married again, the widow Florence Sarah "Flora" Brinson Inman (1857-1946) in June 1889 and they had 2 more.

11/11/1837; Burke County, GA

01/05/1901; Davisboro, GA; burial in Davisboro City Cemetery, Davisboro, GA