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(1843 - 1896)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was an unmarried 17 year old farm hand living with his parents and 4 siblings at Roanoke in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted there on 15 February 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company I of the 13th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was wounded in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and was probably absent on wounded furlough to the end of the war.
After the War
By 1880 he was a farmer in Calhoun County, AL.
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 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Emily Hopgood (1846-1925) in January 1864 and they had 11 children.
His brothers Joseph and Martin were also in Company I; and both were mortally wounded at Sharpsburg.
Birth
07/20/1843; Randolph County, AL
Death
06/04/1896; in AL; burial in Red Apple Baptist Church Cemetery, Boaz, AL
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 32936]
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 32937]