David P. Godfrey

Son of physician James F Godfrey, in 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer living next door to his parents at Thomasville in Thomas County, GA. He enlisted on 12 July (or 10 August) 1861 in Albany, GA and mustered as a Private in Company D, Cobb's Legion Cavalry. He was promoted to 4th (2nd?) Corporal about June 1862.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left arm in action on 13 September 1862, probably at the Quebec Schoolhouse near Middletown, MD and was captured.

His arm was amputated and he was admitted to a US Army hospital in Baltimore on 13 November. He was transferred to Fort McHenry on 17 November for exchange and was admitted to the CS General Hospital in Petersburg, VA on 21 November. He was discharged from the service for disability there on 30 November 1862.

By 1870 he was a retail merchant back in Thomasville, GA and then lived in Taylor County, GA. His wife’s name was Margaret. Applied for a Confederate pension in Taylor County, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from the US Census of 1860 and his roster entry in Harriet Bey Mesic's Cobb's Legion Cavalry (2009).

c. 1841; Laurens District, SC