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(c. 1846 - ?)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 13 year old living with his parents and 6 siblings on their small farm at Mt. Olive in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted as a substitute for his father George Washington Conn (1821-1904) on 14 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 13th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was listed as having deserted his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 with no later military record.
After the War
In 1870 he was a farmer at Marble Valley in Coosa County, AL but by 1880 was farming in Talladega County, AL; his children then listed with the surname Beck.
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 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Maryland native Sarah Elizabeth Pachin (1844-) and they had at least 6 children between 1862 and 1878; the first two were born in Maryland (1862, 1866).
Birth
c. 1846 in AL
Death
Date not known; burial in Cooper Family Cemetery, Marble Valley, AL
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 32423]
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 32424]