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(1842 - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his parents and 7 siblings on their small farm near Athens in Clarke County, GA. He enlisted there on 5 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, Cobb's Legion Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His father Lewis filed for his final pay of $124.13 in November 1862, and it was paid in February 1863.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
Birth
12/19/1842 in GA
Death
09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD
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 33776]