Open main menu
Open main menu
![[no picture yet]](images/none.gif)
[no picture yet]
(c. 1841 - 1862)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer living with his parents, Archibald and Mary, and 7 younger siblings on their small farm at Rockdale in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Randolph County on 12 (or 26) July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K 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 mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds in Shepherdstown, VA on 25 September 1862.
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.
His father Archibald (1816-1881), brother Archibald (1844-), and uncles Thompson, Burgess, William, and Loftin (1836-1922) Reeves were also in Company K.
Birth
c. 1841 in GA
Death
09/25/1862; Shepherdstown, VA
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 32876]
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 32877]