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(1841 - 1907)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
An unmarried 20 year old farmer from Tallassee, AL, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was sick in Virginia hospitals from November into March 1862, and again in July and August.
On the Campaign
He was captured in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was held at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was briefly in a Richmond, VA hospital, formally exchanged on 10 November, and returned to duty on 11 November 1862. He was wounded by a gunshot to his left foot at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and in hospitals in Richmond to 15 August 1863.
He was listed as a deserter by 1 March 1864. He enlisted for United States service on 19 May at Point Lookout, MD and mustered at Norfolk, VA on 6 June as a Private in Company H, First US Volunteer Infantry. He was promoted to 5th Sergeant on 1 September 1864 and was detailed on guard duty on the Cannonball River in the Dakota Territory (DT) from December 1864 into February 1865. In May and June he was detailed in charge of a wagon train of ammunition (and 38 men) from Fort Rice to Fort Sully, DT. He was sent to a hospital in Sioux City, IA on 6 September 1865 and discharged there with his company on 30 October 1865.
After the War
By 1880 he was a shoemaker in St. Louis, MO and he began receiving a US veteran's pension for disability in March 1890. In 1900 he was living with his brother Reline (?) and family on their farm at Newton, MS.
He was admitted to the US Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Dayton, OH on 5 November 1900 and discharged on 12 December 1907.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records, Confederate1 and Union,2 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1880 & 1900, and the Registers.4
He married Sarah Malinda Lyttaker (later Scribner; 1844-1911) in Iowa in November 1865 and they had 4 children; they probably divorced before 1893, when she re-married.
Birth
06/30/1841; Notasulga, AL
Death
02/15/1907; Tunica County, MS
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 32585]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Former Confederate Soldiers who Served in the 1st Through 6th U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments, 1864-1866, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 32587]
3 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 32586]
4 US Department of Veterans Affairs, Registers of the United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1866-1938, Washington, DC: US National Archives and Records Administration, 1938 [AotW citation 32588]