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(c. 1833 - ?)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was was an unmarried 27 year old farm worker on the T. Shrieves place at Oaky Streak, Butler County, AL. He enlisted on 19 July 1861 at Montgomery, AL and mustered as a Private in Company G 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 absent without leave in February (& March?) 1863 and was captured at Falling Waters, MD on the return from Gettysburg, PA on 14 July 1863 - thought to have deserted intentionally. He was briefly at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC then sent to Point Lookout, MD on 8 August. He was released there after taking an oath of allegiance to the United States and enlisting for US Army service on 25 February 1864.
He mustered as a Private in Company F, First US Volunteer Infantry and served with them in the West until he was mustered out on 10 May 1866 at Fort Leavenworth, KS.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1833; Butler County, 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 32664]
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 32666]
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 32665]