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(1832 - 1903)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was an unmarried 28 year old surgeon and dentist in Rockford, AL. He enlisted on 12 May 1862 in Coosa County, AL and mustered as a Private in Company H of the 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 Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 6 July 1863 to 14 June 1865 when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.
After the War
In 1866 he lived in Walker County, AL but by 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a physician in Yell County, AR.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His memorial is on Findagrave.
He married Jane (?: 1830-bef. 1900) and they had a daughter Ottis (1867-1957). He married again, Nancy Wilson (1858-1936) in 1901.
Birth
05/1832 in AL
Death
1903; in AR
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 32535]
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 32536]