Eldridge Whitfield Reaves

Known by Whitfield, he was an unmarried 19 year old farmer from Wedowee, Randolph County, AL when he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was elected Junior 2nd (3rd) Lieutenant on 26 September and promoted to (Senior) 2nd Lieutenant on 18 December 1862. He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863, was briedly held at Fort Delaware, then and was a prisoner at Johnson's Island near Sandusky, OH from 20 July 1863 to 14 March 1865 when he was transferred to Point Lookout, MD for exchange. There is no later military record in his file.

In 1880 he was working in a steam mill at Roanoke in Randolph County, AL. By 1900 and to at least 1920 he was a house carpenter and contractor in Carrollton, GA.

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 1880-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has his death in 1928.

He married Martha Ida Bloodworth (1856-1949) in 1876 and they had 8 children.

His brother Eralbun was also in Company D, and brother Sidney was their Captain.

03/14/1842; Wedowee, AL

01/12/1929; Carroll County, GA; burial in Carrollton City Cemetery, Carrollton, GA