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(c. 1840 - 1883)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was an unmarried 20 year old overseer, probably on the Samuel Estrig/Estridge plantation (16 slaves), living with his parents and 4 siblings in Sumter 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 continued in service with his company and was in all of their battles to the end of the war. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 May 1864. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
In 1870 he was a farm worker at Des Arc in Prairie County, AR, but was working his own farm in Prairie County by 1880.
References & notes
His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Zilpha Elizabeth Oliver (1843-1880) and they had 3 children between 1870 and 1875.
Birth
c. 1840 in AL
Death
01/01/1883; burial in Myrtlewood Cemetery, Livingston, 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 32747]
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 32748]