Micajah Harris

A 29 year old farmer, he enlisted in Randolph County (or in Montgomery), AL on 26 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was captured at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was paroled at Keedysville, MD on 20 September. He was later exchanged and was discharged for disability on 10 February 1863.

In 1870 he was farming with Frank Armstrong in Pontotoc, MS. His daughter Louisiana (Lou or Lue) was born in Comanche County, TX in 1877, but he was again farming at Pontotoc by 1880. In 1900 he was a day laborer living with his daughter Lou and her family in De Leon, Comanche County, TX. He'd finally retired by 1920, still living in her household in De Leon, then 87 years old.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Josephine Elizabeth Ann Traylor (later Gosdin; 1838-1910) in March 1853 and they had 3 children. He married again, Susan Catherine Harris (relative?; 1841-) in October 1858 and they had at least 8 children by 1886. He married a third time, Sallie Holomon (?) in February 1896.

04/02/1832; Coweta County, GA

02/24/1919; De Leon, TX; burial in De Leon Cemetery, De Leon, TX