Alfred Nathaniel Chance

In 1860 he was a 22 year old planter with 2 slaves in Burke County, GA. He enlisted on 1 August 1861 in Waynesboro, GA and mustered as a Private in Company E, Cobb's Legion Infantry in November.

He was wounded in action in Maryland in September 1862, place and date not specified.

He was in a hospital at least through December 1862. He was captured on 16 August 1864 at Front Royal, VA, briefly held in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC, then sent on to the prison in Elmira, NY. He was sent to James River, VA on 20 February 1865 for exchange. He was ill in Jackson Hospital in Richmond, VA from 3 to 25 March 1865, then furloughed home for 60 days. He surrendered and was paroled at Augusta, GA on 18 May 1865.

By 1870 he was back farming in Burke County, GA. In 1880 he was a mill hand in Emanuel County, GA but by 1900 and to at least 1920, then 80 years old, he was farming there.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha Melonia/Melvina Tennerson Chance (1845-) in December 1859 and they had 3 sons. He married again, Lucinda L. "Lou" Crump (1842-1922) in April 1880 and they had a daughter Mary in 1886.

His brother George was also in Company E.

04/02/1838; Sandersville, GA

03/02/1927; Burke County, GA; burial in Habersham Methodist Church Cemetery, Perkins, GA