David Washington Crews

A carpenter's son, in 1860 he was a 17 year old farm worker living with his parents and 6 younger siblings at Carrollton in Carroll County, GA. He enlisted there on 4 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company F, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

He was wounded in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 25 September then in Carrollton, GA on wounded furlough from 31 October to 25 January 1863. He was listed as absent without leave after 6 August 1864, the date of the fight at Front Royal, VA, with no later record with the Legion.

By 1880 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer in Carroll County, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, also as David W Cruse, and the US Census of 1860, 1880, & 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha Ann Gilley (1838-1896) in September 1866 and they had 5 children.

His brothers Thomas and John were also in Company F. Thomas W Crews/Cruse (1844-1901) enlisted at 17 in August 1861, was ill in Richmond, VA during the Maryland Campaign, wounded at Chancellorsville, and was captured at Front Royal in August 1864 and was a prisoner of war to March 1865. John Wesley Crews/Cruse (1848-1932) enlisted in Company F in April 1862 at age 14 and was with them to the surrender at Appomattox Court House in April 1865. Their father Joseph M. Crews/Cruse (1811-1865) enlisted in the company in November 1862 and was discharged for disability and age, then 52, in April 1863.

01/01/1841; Fulton County, GA

04/02/1914; Carrollton, GA; burial in Gilley Cemetery, Cross Plains, GA