Abner G. Mitchum

In 1860 he was an unmarried 16 year old farmer living with his parents and 8 siblings on their small farm at Rockdale in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 26 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and but was captured, possibly wounded, at Sharpsburg on 16 or 17 September 1862.

He signed a statement on 29 Septmber at Sharpsburg that he did not wish to return to the Confederacy, and he was paroled, free to go into any of the "loyal states." There is no later military record.

His widowed mother Susan filed a claim for his final pay in September 1863, probably believing him dead.

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, also as Abner G. Meacham, and the Alabama Archives,2 as Abner G. Micham and Abner Mitcham. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

His father William R (1818-1862) and brothers Henry L and John J also enlisted in Company K in 1861; William was killed at Malvern Hill, VA on 1 July 1862, while Henry and John survived the war.

c. 1841 in NC