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(c. 1839 - ?)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
An unmarried 22 year old farmer from Reeltown in Tallapoosa County, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as 2nd Sergeant of Company F, 13th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 26 September and furloughed home on 18 October. He returned to duty about January 1863. He was wounded again, at Hanover Junction, VA on 3 May 1864, admitted to Howard's Grove General Hospital in Richmond, VA on 26 May, then home on furlough from 7 June 1864 to the end of the war.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1839 in GA
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 33009]
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 33010]
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 33011]