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(c. 1835 - ?)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A married 26 year old farmer at Lineville on the border between Talladega and Randolph Counties, AL, he enlisted at Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 13th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was with his company in action on South Mountain on 14 September and was seriously wounded by a gunshot at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.
The rest of the War
By the end of 1863, then in a hospital in Staunton, VA, he was reported as "improving." He was discharged for "permanent disability" on 17 March 1864 at Orange Court House, VA.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1835 in GA
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 32317]
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 32318]