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(1834 - 1898)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A married 27 year old merchant in Greenville, AL, he enlisted as Private in Company G, 13th Alabama Infantry on 19 July 1861 in Montgomery.
On the Campaign
He was with his Company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September an was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the 3rd Alabama Hospital in Richmond, VA on 26 September and furloughed on 1 October. He was wounded again, at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and his right arm was amputated. He was furloughed home from the 3rd Alabama Hospital on 9 July 1863. He was retired for disability, date not given.
After the War
By 1880 he was a farmer at Opelika in Lee County, AL.
References & notes
His service from the Alabama database1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Martha Amelia Shealy (1841-1892) in Chambers County, AL in January 1859 and they had at least 5 children.
Birth
12/17/1834; Jasper County, GA
Death
02/12/1898; Temple, TX; burial in Hillcrest Cemetery, Temple, TX
1 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 32709]
2 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 32710]