Henry John Childers

In 1860 he was a 17 year old day laborer living with his (widowed?) mother in Athens, GA. He enlisted there on 5 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

He was seriously wounded in the thigh in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured there.

He was treated in the US 6th Army Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD. He was sent from Fort McHenry in Baltimore to Fortress Monroe, VA on 11 October, and received at Aikens' Landing, VA the next day for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 15 October and furloughed home from 17 October to 13 March 1863. He was captured again, at Gettysburg, PA on 5 July 1863, and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to February 1865.

In 1870 he was a barkeeper back in Athens, GA. By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a day laborer there.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Winnie Ann Williams (1849-1930) in February 1868 and they had a son Charlie.

12/1842 in GA

08/05/1909; Athens, GA; burial in Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, GA