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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Columbus F. Cannon

(1833 - 1873)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an ambrotypist (photographer) living in John C Corley's hotel in Troy, Pike County, AL. He enlisted at Yorktown, VA on 8 February 1862, and mustered as a Private in Company G, 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 transferred to Company E, 10th Georgia Infantry Battalion on 18 January 1863 and was with them to December of 1864, when he was granted a furlough of indulgence to 20 January 1865. He was held by a Federal Provost Marshal at Portsmouth, VA as a "deserter from the rebel army" by 12 April 1865 with no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives,2 which has him as Columbus Carnes. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Elmina Daugherty (1842-1872) and they had 2 children (b. 1865, 1867).

Birth

08/11/1833 in GA

Death

09/10/1873

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 32388]

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 32389]

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