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(1829 - 1865)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 30 year old school teacher and owner of 2 slaves at Covington in Newton County, GA. He enlisted there on 1 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, Cobb's Legion Infantry on 5 August. He was promoted to 4th Corporal, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and "left behind" with the wounded and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was sent to Fort McHenry on 5 May 1863 and transferred to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange on 11 May. He was back with his company before June 1864 and was mortally wounded in his pelvis at Sailor's Creek, VA on 6 April 1865.
He was admitted to the field hospital of the (US) Fifth Corps on April 14th, and was transferred to Washington, on the steamer State of Maine, on the 18th, and received into Lincoln Hospital on the 19th. Assistant Surgeon J. P. Arthur reported: "Gunshot [sic, shell] fracture of the left ilium, missile entering two inches from the sacro-iliac synchondrosis, passing through into the pelvis, where it remained. The patient died from hemorrhage April 28, 1865 ..."
References & notes
Birth
02/23/1829; Newton County, GA
Death
04/28/1865; Washington, DC; burial in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
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 33769]
2 A large photograph of part of his pelvic bone is shown in Plate XXXV on the page opposite his medical case.
Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 223 [AotW citation 33770]