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(1834 - 1886)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Going by Levi, he was a married 26 year old farmer from Rainesville, AL when he enlisted in Montgomery on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G of the 13th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was in action with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was with his unit in each of their battles to the end of the war and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
In 1870 he was a farm worker at Greenville in Butler County, AL but by 1880 had his own farm at Spring Hill, AL.
References & notes
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 1870 & 1880; he was ill with pneumonia on the enumerator's visit in June 1880.
He married Susan A McCann (1825-1875) in February 1858 and they had 2 children before the war. He married again, Mary Sophronia Barnes (1856-1931) in October 1878 and they may have had at least 2 more.
Birth
11/14/1834; Butler County, AL
Death
1886; in 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 32732]
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 32733]