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(c. 1838 - 1892)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A 23 year old farmer at Camden in Wilcox County, AL, he enlisted there on 6 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A 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 wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 30 September. He was captured at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863, briefly held in Washington, DC, then sent to City Point, VA for exchange on 10 May. He was captured again, at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July and a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 6 July 1863 to 14 June 1865 when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.
After the War
In 1880 he was a farmer at Bonham in Wilcox County, AL.
References & notes
His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives,2 as Y.J and T.J. Sadler. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1850 & 1880, and his widow Charlotte's 1899 Alabama Confederate pension application.
He married Charlotte Farr (1833-) in July 1859 and they had a son William (1866-1951).
Birth
c. 1838 in AL
Death
05/16/1892
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 32903]
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 32904]