Cader A. Lilly

In 1860 he was a married 22 year old farmer in Tallapoosa County, 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 in action with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left foot at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and was in Virginia hospitals through August. He was wounded again, in the foot, at Bristoe Station, VA on 14 October and returned to duty from a Charlottesville, VA hospital on 7 November 1863. He was wounded for the third time, mortally, by a gunshot to his abdomen at Jones' Farm near Petersburg, VA on 30 September 1864. He was admitted to Howard's Grove General Hospital in Richmond, VA on 2 October but died of his wound there on 8 October 1864.

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Mary Eliza Young (1842-1921) in July 1860, and they had a son, William (1863-1918).

c. 1838 in AL

10/08/1864; Richmond, VA