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"Andrew"
(c. 1841 - ?)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A miller's son, in 1860 he was an unmarried 19 year old laborer living with his parents at Rockford in Coosa County, 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 Falling Waters, MD on the return march from Gettysburg on 14 July 1863. He was briefly held in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC then a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD until exchanged on 3 May 1864. He was furloughed home and listed as absent without leave from September 1864 to the end of the war.
After the War
He was probably living in Louisiana by 1870 and was a farmer in Claiborne Parish by 1880.
References & notes
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 1850, 1880.
He married the widow Amanda Warren Kilgore (1845-1910) in July 1865 and they had 7 children by 1883.
His brother Francis was also in Company H.
Birth
c. 1841; Newton County, 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 32421]
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 32422]