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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Jefferson Vastine Gleaton

(1843 - 1913)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 16 year old living with his parents, 2 siblings, and 6 slaves on their prosperous farm at Tallassee in Tallapoosa County, AL. He enlisted on 19 July 1861 in Montgomery, AL and mustered as a Private in Company B 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 but was away on detail at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He served with his company through the war and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

In 1880 he was a mill worker in Tuscaloosa County, AL. In 1910, then 66 yers old, he was working on a railroad crew in Bibb County, AL.

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, 1880, and 1910.

He married Elizabeth "Eliza" Segrest (1848-1920) in May 1869 and they had 7 children.

Birth

10/27/1843; Orangeburg District, SC

Death

04/19/1913; McGrawton, AL; burial in Mount Carmel Cemetery, West Blocton, AL

Notes

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 32539]

2 State of Alabama, State Archives, and Dr. Edwin C. Bridges, director, and staff, Alabama Department of Archives & History, Published c.2000, first accessed 08 July 2005, <http://www.archives.state.al.us/index.html> [AotW citation 32540]

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