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(c. 1840 - ?)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
An unmarried 21 year old farmer in Wesabulga, Randolph County, AL, he enlisted on 19 July 1861 in Randolph County (or Montgomery), AL and mustered as a Private in Company D 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 captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 7 or 10 July to 14 June 1865 when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1840 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 32738]
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 32739]