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(c. 1838 - ?)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
An unmarried 23 year old mechanic in Tuskegee, AL, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was appointed 2nd Corporal on 1 January 1862.
On the Campaign
He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 16 September 1862, but was listed as absent without leave on the 17th.
The rest of the War
He was wounded by a gunshot at Cold Harbor, VA on 6 July 1864 and retied to the Invalid Corps on 29 December 1864. He was at the post at Columbus, GA to at least February 1865. He signed a parole at Montgomery, AL on 18 May 1865.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1838 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 32768]
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 32769]
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 32770]