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(c. 1843 - 1864)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 13th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was "severely" wounded by a gunshot to the upper part of his thigh in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 27 September and furloughed home for 30 days on 10 October 1862, and was probably on furlough and in hospitals to at least June 1863. He was captured at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864 and died of erysipelas, a bacterial skin infection, in the prison at Point Lookout, MD on 12 July 1864.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1843; Randolph County, AL
Death
07/12/1864; Point Lookout, MD
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 32309]
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 32310]