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(c. 1838 - 1863)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Going by Malichi, in 1860 he was a 22 year old farmer living next door to his parents, 4 siblings, and 7 slaves on their plantation at Rockford in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted there on 1 March 1862 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 was wounded by a gunshot at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the 2nd Alabama Hospital in Richmond, VA on 28 September and died there of pneumonia on 1 January 1863.
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. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Elizabeth Wood (1840-) in December 1857 and they had 3 children.
His brother George was also in Company H.
Birth
c. 1838 in AL
Death
01/01/1863; Richmond, VA; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, VA