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(c. 1837 - ?)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A married 25 year old farmer from Buckhannon, AL, he enlisted at Roanoke, AL on 15 February 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company I of the 13th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was a prisoner at Fort Delaware until 2 October when he was sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a hospital in Richmond from 29 October to 6 November, and formally exchanged to return to duty on 10 November 1862. He was court-martialed, charge not given, on 12 May 1863 and in arrest to at least October 1863. He was wounded by a gunshot in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and on furlough to at least August 1864 with no later military record.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1837 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 32888]
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 32889]