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(c. 1835 - ?)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 25 year old living with merchant Walton G Foot and family at Tallapoosa in Haralson County, GA. He enlisted on 1 August 1861 in Decatur in DeKalb County, GA and mustered on 5 August as a Private in Company C, Cobb's Legion Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action in Maryland in September 1862, place and date not given.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 25 September then sent to Decatur, GA on wounded furlough on 7 November 1862, and has no later record with the Legion.
He transferred as a Private to Company B of the 3rd Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters by June 1863 and was sick in hospitals from 20 February to July 1864, then on furlough to at least December 1864 with no later military record.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Indian Spring in Butts County, GA.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
He married the widow Mary A Curry Welch (1838-1919) between 1864 and 1870.
Birth
c. 1835 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 33757]