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(c. 1839 - 1903)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was an unmarried 21 year old farm worker living with his father and 10 younger siblings on their modest place at Mt. Olive in Coosa County AL. He enlisted at Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 13th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was in action with his company 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 at Gettysburg, PA in July 1863 and by a gunshot to his right arm in the Wilderness, VA on 4 or 5 May 1864. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
In 1870 he was a farm worker living near his father-in-law at Cross Plains in Calhoun County, AL. By 1887 and to at least 1903 he was a farmer at various places in Calhoun County.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860 & 1870, and his 1887 and later Alabama Confederate pension applications.
He married Martha S. Wilkerson (1840-) in September 1865 and they had 4 children.
Birth
c. 1839; Coosa County, AL
Death
07/1903
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 32979]
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 32980]