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(c. 1843 - 1863)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A mechanic's son, in 1860 he was a 17 year old farm hand living with his parents and 6 siblings at Blake's Ferry in Randolph County, AL. He and brother Ben enlisted on 6 July 1861 in Randolph County and mustered as Privates in Company D of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was away from the regiment, ill, for much of 1862.
On the Campaign
He was still sick and not with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September but rejoined in time to fight with them at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was listed as missing at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863 with no later military record. He was probably killed there.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives,2 which says he was captured at Gettysburg; there are none of the usual POW records in his service file. The Buseys3 have him as probably killed at Gettysburg. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
Birth
c. 1843 in GA
Death
07/03/1863; Gettysburg, PA
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 32643]
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 32644]
3 Busey, John W., and Travis W. Busey, Confederate Casualties at Gettysburg: A Comprehensive Record, Jefferson (NC): McFarland & Company, 2017, p.137 [AotW citation 32645]