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(1844 - 1928)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 17 year old farm hand living on the Thomas Dulles place at Mt Olive, AL. He enlisted in Coosa County, AL on 2 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 13th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and a prisoner at Fort Delaware. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States there on 14 June 1865 and was released.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer living near his father in law's place in White County, TN. In 1910 had a farm in Muskogee County, OK and by 1920 he had retired there.
References & notes
Birth
10/27/1844; Hall County, GA
Death
03/07/1928; Porum, OK; burial in Elmwood Cemetery, Wagoner, OK
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 32366]
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 32367]