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(1842 - 1837)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Cavalry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted on 18 March 1861 in Atlanta, GA as a Private in Company F of (Ramsey's) First Georgia Infantry and they entered Confederate service on 16 April, then at Pensacola, FL. The regiment disbanded at the end of their 12 month service term, on 15 March 1862, and he again enlisted in Atlanta, on 16 April, and mustered as a Private in Company G, Cobb's Legion Cavalry. He was detailed as a courier to Major General Lafayette McLaws on 24 August.
On the Campaign
He was with General McLaws on the Campaign.
The rest of the War
There is no later record of him with the Legion. He enlisted on 19 September 1863 in Jefferson, GA and mustered as 2nd Sergeant of Company H, 16th Battalion Georgia Cavalry. He was either captured or deserted, date not given, and took an oath of allegiance to the United States at Chattanooga, TN on 9 March 1864.
He enlisted in Atlanta, GA on 15 September 1864 and mustered in Nashville, TN on 21 September as a Private in Company B of the 10th Tennessee (Union) Cavalry - he'd been recruited in Atlanta immediately after the fall of the city to Federal forces that month and given a bounty of $100. He was commissioned First Lieutenant and Regimental Quartermaster (QM) on 26 April 1865, and was QM of the post at Johnsonville, TN in June. He was mustered out and discharged on 17 August 1865.
After the War
By 1870 he was a house painter in Atlanta, but he moved to Texas in 1873 and was a painter in Paris, TX to at least 1880. By 1900 he was a merchant in San Angelo, Tom Green County, TX - he was a furniture dealer and undertaker - and in 1910 was a real estate agent in San Antonio, TX, and could afford a live-in servant. He'd retired there by 1920.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1930. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Amelia Popkins (1846-1875) in about 1874 and they had a daughter Wooten Amelia (1875-1944); she died shortly after Wooten's birth. He married again, Maroah Jane Walker (1850-1931) in November 1876 and they had a son, Sanford (1879-1948).
Birth
12/18/1842; Athens, GA
Death
05/06/1837; San Antonio, TX; burial in Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio, TX
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 33780]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 33781]