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(c. 1826 - c. 1862)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was an unmarried 34 year old farmer living with his parents, 2 siblings, and 1 slave at Rockdale in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861, and mustered as First Sergeant of Company D, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was appointed 2d Lieutenant on 11 June 1862, but was frequently absent, sick, afterward.
On the Campaign
He was with the army in Maryland, perhaps still ill, and was captured there, date and place not given.
The rest of the War
He was paroled and exchanged at Aikens' Landing, VA on 8 November. He resigned due to his disability from lung disease on 17 November 1862. He may have died soon after.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives,2 which has his age at enlistment at 30 and his birth in Alabama. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and the Alabama Historical Quarterly (Vol. 4, No. 3, Fall 1942; J.M.K. Guinn's History of Randolph County).
Birth
c. 1826 in GA
Death
c. 1862
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 32386]
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 32387]