Isaac Coe

In 1860 he was an unmarried 19 year old living with his parents and 9 siblings on their small farm in Butler County, AL. He enlisted at Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded by a gunshot at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted to the Episcopal Church Hospital in Williamsburg, VA on 9 October and returned to duty on 26 October 1862. He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his left knee, at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 after a week in a hospital in Richmond, VA, was furloughed home for 45 days on 20 June. He was discharged for disability due to that wound on 23 March 1864.

In 1870 he was a farmer at Rutledge in Crenshaw County, AL but by 1880 and to at least 1900 he was farming in Franklin County, TX.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900.

He married Sarah Frances Bacon (1840-1899) and they had 10 children between 1865 and 1883. He married again, Mary Hannah Wren (1853-1915) in January 1900. He may have married twice more, in 1905 and 1907.

His brother John was also in Company G.

11/1841; Dale County, AL

10/1909; Franklin County, TX