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(c. 1840 - ?)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a married 20 year old farmer at Arbacoochee, Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D of the 13th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was paroled on 20 September at Keedysville, MD and was at Winchester, VA by 14 October. He was promoted to 4th Corporal on 18 December 1862 and was captured again, at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863. He was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 6 July 1863, but took an oath of allegiance to the United States and enlisted in the First Connecticut Cavalry on 30 August 1863.
He mustered as a Private in Company G on 5 October, was promoted to Corporal on 1 November, and Sergeant on 21 January 1864. He was listed as a deserter on 23 March 1864.
After the War
By 1870 he was again a farmer at Almond in Randolph County. He was farming in Clay County, AL by 1880.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1840 in GA
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 32796]
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 32797]
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, p. 81 [AotW citation 32798]