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(c. 1837 - ?)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A miner's son, in 1860 he was a 24 year old farmer at Rockdale in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861, as did his father William, and mustered as a Private in Company D of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was wounded at Malvern Hill, VA on 1 July 1862.
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 wounded again, by a gunshot at Davis Farm near Petersburg, VA on 19 August 1864 and was furloughed for 30 days on 26 August.
After the War
By 1870 he was a farm worker at Wenaka in Talladega County, AL. He probably died as a result of a farm accident, date and place not known.
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 & 1870.
He married Sarah Ann Ray (1833-1899) and they had 3 daughters between 1861 and 1869.
His father William (1800-) was also in Company D until discharged for infirmity from old age on 1 January 1862.
Birth
c. 1837 in 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 32543]
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 32544]