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(1830 - 1913)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a married 30 year old farm worker living with miller A.B. Bugg and his family at Wetumpka, Autauga County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C 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 (or 3) July 1863. He was sent to Fort Delaware on 7 July where he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and enlisted as a Corporal in Company G of the First Connecticut Cavalry on 5 October 1863.
He was transferred to the US Department of the Northwest to "fight Indians" on 27 April 1864, as were many of the other former Confederates in his company, was listed as absent without leave in August, and rejoined the First Connecticut Cavalry as a Private in Company D, on Christmas Day 1864. He mustered out with them on 2 August 1865.
After the War
In 1900 he was farming in Payne County, OK, but by 1910 he was he was a farmer at Willow Springs, Howell County, MO.
References & notes
His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, the Alabama Archives,2 and the Record.3 Personal details from the US Census of 1860 & 1900-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Larana (?; c. 1830-) before 1855 and they had at least 2 children. He married again, Margaret "Maggie" (?; 1844- ) in about 1890.
Birth
06/24/1830 in NC
Death
08/05/1913; Willow Springs, MO
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 32744]
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 32745]
3 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pp. 74, 82 [AotW citation 32746]