Charles Thomas Taliaferro

He graduated from the Atlanta Medical College in 1859 and studied at Jefferson Medical College (Philadelphia) and the Medical College of Virginia (Richmond). In 1860 he was a 27 year old physician living on the Michael Rabun plantation (6 slaves) at Evergreen in Conecuh County, AL with a practice in Sparta, AL. He enlisted at Sparta on 23 April 1861 and mustered in Lynchburg, VA on 7 May as a Private in Company E, 4th Alabama Infantry. He was elected Junior 2nd Lieutenant (aka 3rd Lieutenant) on 28 April 1862 and promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on 22 August.

He was with his company on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He resigned his commission due to illness on 2 October 1862, but was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the regiment in February 1863. He was promoted to Surgeon in February 1865 with no later military record.

He resumed his practice in Evergreen and was also in the drug business there, to about 1867. He then farmed outside of town. In 1885, while still maintaining his farm, he returned to the drug business in Evergreen. He was mayor of Evergreen in 1889 and probate judge of Conecuh County in 1892. He was still a druggist in Evergreen in 1900.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, 1880, & 1900, the Alabama Census of 1866, and a bio sketch in the Memorial Record of Alabama (1893), Vol, 1. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a group photograph of General Evander M Law and others, probably taken in 1864, now at the Valentine Museum in Richmond, VA.

03/15/1833; Caroline County, VA

06/19/1902; Evergreen, AL; burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Evergreen, AL