David Troutman

In 1860 he was an unmarried 27 year old laborer at Friendship in Butler County, AL. He enlisted at Greenville, AL on 2 July 1861 and mustered in Montgomery, AL on 19 July as a Private in Company G, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was absent, sick, from June 1862.

He rejoined his company in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and was captured there.

He took an oath of allegiance and signed a statement near Sharpsburg on 3 October 1862 asking not to be returned by exchange, but rather be allowed to "remain in any of the loyal states" but was sent from Fort McHenry in Baltimore to Fortress Monroe, VA on 11 October 1862 for exchange anyway. He was captured again, at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 7 July 1863 to 7 June 1865 when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer in Leake County, MS.

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1880.

He married 3-times-widowed Dorcas Crane (1825-) in December 1870 in Leake County, MS.

c. 1833; Stewart County, GA

Date not known; Leake County, MS