Hezekiah Estes

In 1860 he was a 39 year old living with his wife, 7 children, and his father William on his small farm at Rockford in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted in Richmond, VA on 23 June 1862 and mustered as a Private in the 6th Alabama Infantry as a substitute for Pvt. William M. Shaw, Company M. He transferred to Company F of the 13th Alabama Infantry on 18 August 1862.

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was sick in a Richmond, VA hospital from 24 December 1862 to 27 January 1863. He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863. He was a prisoner at Fort Delaware by 6 July and died there of typhoid fever on 9 September 1863.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, as H. Estes, and the Archives,2 also as Hazekiel Estes. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His son Benjamin was also in Company F, also captured at Gettysburg, and also died while a prisoner at Fort Delaware, in 1864.

05/01/1821 in GA

09/09/1863; Fort Delaware, DE; burial in Finn's Point National Cemetery, Pennsville, NJ