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(1836 - 1911)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was an unmarried 24 year old farmer at Chandler's Spring in Talladega County, AL. He enlisted at Roanoke, AL on 3 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company I 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 wounded at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863. He was 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
By 1870 he was a farmer in Clay County, AL. In 1880 he was farming at Rockford in Coosa County and by 1900 he had a farm at Harpersville in Shelby 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 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Margaret Ann Jones (1851-1934) in September 1868 and they had 8 children.
His brother Nathaniel was also in Company I.
Birth
02/18/1836 in GA
Death
10/05/1911; burial in Roy Cemetery, Helena, 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 32547]
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 32548]