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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Andrew Jackson Adcock

(c. 1842 - 1881)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Son of planter Anderson William Adcock, in 1860 he was an 18 year old living with his parents, 7 siblings, and 8 slaves on the family plantation near Montgomery, AL. He was a farmer at Wetumpka, AL when he enlisted in Montgomery on 19 July 1861 and he mustered as a Private in Company A, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was seriously wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

Initially thought to have been killed outright at Sharpsburg, he was home on wounded furlough until discharged for disability on 10 May 1863.

After the War

Going by Jackson, by 1870 and to at least 1880 he was again farming at Wetumpka/Good Hope in Elmore County, AL, near brothers John and William.

References & notes

His service from the Alabama database1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880.

His brothers William A (1836-?), John Drury (1835-1895), James G (c.1838-1862), and Dixon L Adcock (1842-1863, Gettysburg) were also in Company C.

Birth

c. 1842 in AL

Death

12/1881

Notes

1 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 32299]

2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 32300]

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