Charles Jackson Conaway

In 1860 his parents and siblings were farm workers at Mt. Olive in Coosa County, AL. Age 19, he enlisted in Covington, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, Cobb's Legion Infantry on 5 August.

He was captured near Middletown, MD on 13 September 1862.

He was held at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA, where he was formally exchanged on 10 November. He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 11 October 1862, with no later record with Cobb's Legion.

He transferred, date not found, as a Private to Company K of the 59th Alabama Infantry. He was 3rd Sergeant by July 1864, when he was wounded by a gunshot to his thigh in action at Petersburg, VA which fractured his leg. He was in the Fairgrounds Hospital there to at least November, and retired for disability on 21 December 1864 - his leg shortened by 6 inches - and sent home.

In 1870 he was a school teacher in Coosa County, AL but by 1880 was a farmer there. In 1900 he was assistant postmaster at Hollins in nearby Clay County, AL and by 1910 had retired there. In 1920 he was living with his daughter Ada Francis (Harwell) and her family in Tuscaloosa, AL.

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

He married Louisa Ellen Yarbrough (1847-1910) in September 1869 and they had 11 children.

02/28/1842; Sparta, GA

08/15/1920; in GA; burial in Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery, Holman Crossroads, AL