Francis Marion White

In 1860 he was an unmarried 18 year old farmer living with his parents and 7 younger siblings on their small farm at Rockdale in Randolph Couty, AL. He enlisted in Eastville, AL on 12 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was with away from his company on detail when they fought at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September, but returned and was wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 27 September and returned to duty on 9 January 1863. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer in Randolph County, AL. In 1900 he was farming in Tallapoosa County, AL and in 1910 was a farmer at Almond in Clay County, AL.

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 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his son Robert Taylor White (1868-1963) obtained a government headstone for his father in November 1962.

He married Nancy Hooper Whatley (1843-1897) and they had 6 children.

08/22/1842; Carroll County, GA

08/10/1915; Randolph County, AL; burial in Concord Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Wadley, AL